Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: G

Terms Letter: G


Gateway
A TCP/IP host(e.g computer or other hardware or software device) that has access to two or more different LAN networks. As such, it can forward messages across networks that other hosts would not be able to access.

Gigabit Ethernet
A term to describe Ethernet at 1000Mbit/sec as opposed to 10Mbit/sec (just called Ethernet) or the Fast Ethernet that runs at 100Mbit/sec

Gigabyte (Gb)
1024 Megabytes (MB). 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes.

Graphical User Interface (GUI)
GUI is an object-oriented display format that allows the user to…