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Terms Letter: I IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. A professional organisation whose activities include the development of communication and network standards IIS Microsoft

Terms Letter: J JAR Short for Java Archive, a file format used to bundle multiple files into a single archive file. Java Java is a

Kbps Kilobits per second; a measure of data transfer speed. 1Kbps = 1024bps. Kilobyte (Kb) Approximately one thousand bytes, or exactly 1,024 bytes

Terms Letter: L LAN Local Area Network. A network connecting computers in a relatively small area such as a building. A LAN can be connected

Terms Letter: M MAC Media Access Control. A protocol operating at the data link layer used to manage a station’s access to the network. MAC

Terms Letter: N Nameserver and DNS(Domain name server) It is a server on the Internet that is responsible to tell your browser the IP address

Terms Letter: O OC-1, OC-3, OC-12, OC-24, OC-48 Optical Carrier transmission speeds, used in fiber optic networks conforming to SONET standard. OC-1 is 51.85 Mbps.

Terms Letter: P Page In contexts of Internet it is a basic HTML document. Web sites usually have many web pages. PAP Password Authentication Protocol.

Terms Letter: R RAID Redundant arrays of independent disks. A disk system with RAID capability can protect its data and provide on-line, immediate access to

Terms Letter: S S/MIME Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension (S/MIME) is a specification for encrypting and authenticating MIME data. It is a way of making