Categoría: Tecnología al Día

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

Terms Letter: T T1 A high-speed digital connection capable of transmitting data at a rate of approximately 1.5 million bits per second. A T1 line

Terms Letter: U Unicode A 16-bit character set defined by ISO 10646. It maps digits to characters in languages around the world. Because 16 bits