Key Technical Terms
10 Base T— 10 Mbps baseband (digital) half-duplex transmission over unshielded twisted pair wire.
100 Base TX— 100 Mbps baseband (digital) full-duplex transmission over unshielded twisted pair wire.
CAT-3— A common type of unshielded twisted pair wire used for analog telephones and early LANs that ran at 10 Mbps.
CAT-5— The most common type of unshielded twisted pair wire used for LANs that run at 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps.
Celeron— A cheap Intel CPU chip that is equivalent to the Pentium II.
DDR— Double data rate DRAM is a new type of RAM that is twice as fast as SDRAM.
DIMM— Dual inline memory modules; the mounting package for SDRAM.
ECC— Error-correcting circuitry corrects RAM memory and other memory errors.
Firewall— A network ...
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