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GigaX3112 Series Layer 3 Managed Switch
ISP Internet Service Provider
A company that provides Internet access to its customers,
usually for a fee.
LAN Local Area Network
A network limited to a small geographic area, such as a
home, office, or small building.
LED Light Emitting Diode
An electronic light-emitting device. The indicator lights on
the front panel of the switch are LEDs.
MAC address Media Access Control address
The permanent hardware address of a device, assigned
by its manufacturer. MAC addresses are expressed as
six pairs of characters.
mask See network mask.
Multicast To send data to a group of network devices.
Mbps Abbreviation for Megabits per second, or one million bits
per second. Network data rates are often expressed in
Mbps.
Monitor Also called “Roving Analysis”, allow you to attach a
network analyzer to one port and use it to monitor the
traffics of other ports on the switch.
network A group of computers that are connected together,
allowing them to communicate with each other and share
resources, such as software, files, etc. A network can be
small, such as a LAN, or very large, such as the Internet.
network mask A network mask is a sequence of bits applied to an IP
address to select the network ID while ignoring the host
ID. Bits set to 1 mean “select this bit” while bits set to 0
mean “ignore this bit.” For example, if the network mask
255.255.255.0 is applied to the IP address 100.10.50.1,
the network ID is 100.10.50, and the host ID is 1. See
also binary, IP address, subnet, “IP Addresses Explained”
section.
NIC Network Interface Card
An adapter card that plugs into your computer and
provides the physical interface to your network cabling,
which for Ethernet NICs is typically an RJ-45 connector.
See Ethernet, RJ-45.