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Standards
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are ducumented agreements containing technical specifications
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ANSI, american national standards institute
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is an organization composed of more than a thousand representatives from industry and government who together determine standards for electronics industry and other fields, suck as chemical and nuclear engineering, health and safety, and construction.
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EIA, Eelectornic Industries Alliance
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is a trade organization composed of representatives from electronics manufacturing firms across the United States.
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TIA, Telecommnications Industry Association
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Tia focuses on standards for information technology, wireless, satellite, fiber optics, and telephone equipment. Both TIAand EIA set standards, lobby goverments and industry, and sponsor conferences, exhibitions, and forums in their area of interest
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IEEE, Institute of electrical and electronics engineers
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is an international society composed of engineering professional.
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ISO, International organization for standardization
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headquartered in geneva switzerland, is a collection of standards organizations representing 146 countries.
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ITU, Internations telecommunications Union
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is a specialized United Nations agency that regulates internationsl telecomunications, including radio and tv frequencies
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ISOC, Internet Society
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Founded in 1992, is a professional membership society that helps to establish technical standards for the internet.
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IAB, Internet Architecture Board
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iab is a technical adversory group of researchers and technical professionals interested in overseeing the internets desgn and managements.
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IETF Internet Engineering Task Force,
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the organization that sets standards for how systems communicate over the internet in a particular, how protocols operate and interact.
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IP, Internet Protocol addresses
Definition
To ensure that every internet connected device has a unique IP address, organization across the globe rely on centralized authorities.
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IANA, Internet AssignedNumbers Authority
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kept records of available and reserved IP addresses and determined how addresses were doled out.
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RIRs, Regional Internet Registries
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An RIR is not for profit agency that manages the distribution of IP addresses to private and public entities.
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ICANN, Internet corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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A private, nonprofit corporation. ICANN is now ultimately responsible for IP addressingand domain name management. Tehnically speaking however, IANA continues to perform the system administration.
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ISP, Internet Service Provider,
Definition
a business that provids organizations and individuals with access to the internet and often other services, such as e-mail and web hosting.
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protocols
Definition
these are the rules at which a computer may communicate.
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OSI, Open systems Interconnections
Definition
Model divides network communications into seven layers: physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, and application.
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The OSI Model is a theorectial representation of what happens betweentwo nodes communicating on a network.
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The path that the OSI model is demonstartied on page: 45
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PDUs, protocol data units
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deiscrte amounts of data
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Application Layer
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The top or seventh layer of the OSI Model. The application layer does not include software application such as Microsoft word or netscape. t
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HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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formats and sends your request from your clients brower to the server. It also formats and sends the Web servers response back to your clients browser.
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API, application program interface
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a set of routines that make up part of the software, transfer your request to the HTTP protocol. HTTP pompts lower layer protocols to establish a connection between your computer and the WEb server.
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Presentation Layer, (This layer acts as a translator)
Definition
accept application layer data and format it so that oe type of application and host can understand data from another type of application and host.
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Session Layer
Definition
coordinate and mintain communication between two nodes on the netowrk. The term session refers to a connection for ongoing data exchange between two parties.
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Terminal
Definition
is a devicewith little (if any) of its own processing or disk capcity that depends on a host to supply it with software and processing services.
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1 gigabit per second (Gbps)
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1,000,000,000 bits per second.
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1 kilobit per second (kbps)
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1000 bits persecond
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1 megabit persecond (Mbps)
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1,000,000 bits per second
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1 terabit per second (Tbps)
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1,000,000,000,000 bits per second.
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1000BASE-CX
Definition
A physical layer standard for achieving 1-gbps throughput over twin axial cooperwire. 1000Base-CX segments are limited to 25 meters and are useful mainly to connect devices such as servers or switches
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1000base-LX
Definition
a physcial layer standard for networks that specifies 1-gbps transmission over fiber optic cable using baseband transmission. 1000base-lx can run on either single mode or multimode fiber. The "LX" represents its reliance on "long
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