Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: O

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. Higher levels are multiples of that speed.

ODBC
Open DataBase Connectivity - A Microsoft standard for accessing different database systems from Windows, for instance Oracle or SQL

Offline
When you are not Online :). In other words when your computer is not connected to the internet.

Online
When your computer is connected to the Internet or a network and communicates with other computers.

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