Windows® 7 Resource Kit

Glossary

802.1X

A standard that defines port-based, network access control used to provide authenticated network access for Ethernet networks. This standard uses the physical characteristics of the switched LAN infrastructure to authenticate devices attached to a LAN port.

802.11

An industry standard for a shared WLAN that defines the physical layer and MAC sublayer for wireless communications.

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ABE

See Access-Based Enumeration (ABE)

Accelerator

A feature of Windows Internet Explorer 8 that lets you select text on a Web page to perform such tasks as opening a street address in a mapping Web site or looking up the dictionary definition of a word.

Access-Based Enumeration (ABE)

Allows a user to see only those files and folders within a network share that ...