PawPrint.net Glossary of Terms

CLFI name for a Digital Signal 1 (DS1) a transmission line with bandwidth sufficient to carry 24 DS0 (64 or 56 Kbps depending on coding) channels.

Because of overhead a T1 being delivered by a provider for data communications usually provides 1.344Mbps of bandwidth, whereas the T1 consumes 1.544Mbps of bandwidth. With B8ZS coding the T1 can provide 1.536MBps of bandwidth (this has become common in modern networks)

The T1 was frequently thought of as the basic building block in Telecommunic...

The Set of rules to provide system management tools to monitor activity and create messages/alerts as required. Network devices that employ SNMP are frequently referred to as "Managed" devices.

A compressed graphic format suited for flat color images (illustrations) and drawings. It compresses images by referencing areas of the same colour thus it is less suitable then JPEG for photographic images (where there are colour gradients)

Originally created by CompuServ it was the subject of proposed law suits and patent discussions which have largely been dropped.

An address referring to a document on the Internet. This can be used to reference a web page via HTTP or a file to be accessed via FTP, for example. The reason for a URL (rather then just the address) is to define completely what a computer must do, and where it must go, to access a document (sometimes even on it´s local hard drive in the case of ´file:´)

The syntax of a URL consists of four elements:

Protocol://address/path/document - here are a few examples:

http://www.pawprint.net/in...

A lens Aberration or defect that causes straight lines to bow outward, away from the center of the image.

In 1991, the NCSA introduced NCSA Mosaic, the first readily-available graphical Web Browser that vitrually kickstarted the dot.com revolution. It may not look like much now - but it is interesting to consider how similar modern browsers look to the original.