IBM ADSL Bridge/ Router Heritage - Manual (Page 157)

A-8 Appendix
Appendix C Glossary
10Base-T
IEEE 802.3 standard for the use of Ethernet LAN technology over
unshielded twisted pair wiring, running at 10Mbps.
100Base-T
IEEE 802.3u standard for the use of Ethernet LAN technology over
unshielded twisted pair wiring, running at 100Mbps.
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line - Technology that delivers
high-speed data and voice connections over existing phone lines. Up
to 8 Mbits/sec can be sent downstream and 640 Kbits/sec upstream.
ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
Devises and proposes recommendations for international
communications standards.
ARP
Address Resolution Protocol. An Internet protocol used to bind an IP
address to Ethernet/802.3 addresses.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. 8-bit code for
character representation.
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode - Cell-relay broadband technology for
high-speed transmission of video, audio, data over LAN/WAN,
making use of fixed-size cells (53-byte cells).
Bridge
A device that segments network traffic. A bridge maintains a list of
each segment’s nodes and only traffic destined for a node on the