Cobranet device, Conductor, Crossover cable – Cirrus Logic CobraNet User Manual

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CobraNet Programmer’s Reference
Glossary of Terms

CobraNet Device

A device in compliance with the CobraNet specification for transmission and/or reception
of digital audio and associated sample clock.

Conductor

CobraNet Device

on the network supplying master clock. A conductor arbitration

procedure insures that at any time there is one and only one conductor per network.

Crossover Cable

A crossover cable can be used to directly connect two network devices.

DTE

Short for Data Terminal Equipment, a DTE is any network device that produces or
consumes data. All CobraNet devices are DTEs.

Ethernet

A Local Area Network (LAN) protocol that transmits information between computers at
speeds of 10 Mbps (megabits per second). It is one of the most widely implemented LAN
standards.

Fast Ethernet

A newer version of Ethernet, also known as 100BASE-T. It supports data transfer rates of
100Mbps. CobraNet operates on a Fast Ethernet network.

Full Duplex

Data can be transmitted and received simultaneously.

Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet is a newer version of Ethernet, also known as 1000BASE-T. It supports
data transfer rates of 1000 Mbps (1 gigabit).

Half Duplex

Data can only be transmitted in one direction at a time (i.e., a device cannot transmit and
receive data simultaneously).

Hub

Hub is not a technically concise term. The term can be used to refer to either a

Link Aggregation

A means for making multiple Ethernet links act as a single higher capacity, fault tolerant
link. More information on link aggregation is available at

http://www.peakaudio.com/

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. Link aggregation is also known as trunking.