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Bandwidth is used to refer to the data transfer rate supported by a network connection or interface. It is usually expressed in bits (of data) per second (bps) but occasionally, it's expressed as bytes per second (Bps).
It should be remembered that a real communications path usually consists of a succession of links, each with its own bandwidth. If one of these links has less bandwidth than the rest then it will reduce the overall throughput of that communications path.
Bandwidth Aggregation is the practice of ensuring that bandwidth is correctly scaled at the central site of a network, allowing the remote sites to access the resources and data there without any network delay. It is important to look at the bandwidth allocated to each site, traffic levels and usage patterns before making a calculation as to how much bandwidth needs to be installed at the core (aggregating).
In common usage the "baud" of a modem is how many bits it can send or receive per
second. Technically, baud is the number of times per second that the carrier signal
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A computerized meeting and announcement system that allows people to carry on discussions, upload and download files, and make announcements without the people being connected to the computer at the same time. In the early 1990's there were many thousands (millions?) of BBS's around the world, most were very small, running on a single IBM clone PC with 1 or 2 phone lines. Some were very large and the line between a BBS and a system like AOL gets crossed at some point, but it is not clearly drawn.
BGP is the core routing protocol of the Internet. It maintains a table of 'prefixes' (IP networks) which designate network reachability among autonomous systems (AS). It is described as a path vector protocol. BGP does not use traditional Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) metrics, but makes routing decisions based on path, network policies and/or rulesets.
Information consisting entirely of ones and zeros. Also, commonly used to refer to files that are not simply text files, e.g. Images.
A method for converting non-
A single digit number in base-
BIOS is an abbreviation for Basic Input and Output System and is the low-
Blog is an abbreviation that stands for Weblog. A weblog is an online diary or personal journal published by an individual. Blogs are frequently updated and can provide an insight into the writers thoughts, feelings and life. Blogs offer opportunities for interaction between readers and writer and are are a fast growing phenomenon on the Web. Many blogs offer the latest breaking news and can be an earlier source of breaking news than the traditional media of newspapers, radio and television.
A measurement of how fast data is moved from one place to another. A 56K modem can move about 57,000 bits per second.
Broadband refers to a high-
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A browser is a computer program that runs on your computer that you use to view web pages, and thus "browse". Browser software interprets the markup of files in HTML, formats them into Web pages, and displays them to you on your computer screen. Popular browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox or Safari allow you to visit and navigate websites, thus allowing you to "browse" those websites. Browsing involves looking around the web page and (maybe) clicking on available links to other information. A file browser, is computer software for managing files and related objects on a computer system.
A set of Bits that represent a single character. Usually there are 8 Bits in a Byte, sometimes more, depending on how the measurement is being made.
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