Application Program Interface – Interface that allows the communication between programs, networks and addresses.
Archie – Piece of softwre for finding files on anonymous FTP sites. It searches only for file names, and has been replaced by more powerful Web-based search engines.
ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
ARPANet – Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
Artificial Intelligence – A branch of computer science that studies how to endow computers with capabilities of human intelligence.
ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line – ADSL is becomming the alternative to an ISDN line. It allows much higher bandwidths over a standard digital telephone line. It needs to be configured similar to a lessed line such a way that it can connect only to ISPs that near you.
Asynchronous Transfer Method - A fast, intelligent hardware switch that can support video, voice, data, image and video. Cell switching technology replaces variable-length packets now in use with uniform cells.
ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Method
Attached File – for example, an application, image or sound that is embedded into an email message.
Audio Video Interleaved – Windows format for saving video with sound.
AUP – Acceptable Use Policy
Authentication – The process of verifying a person is who he or she claims to be.
Authorization – The process of allowing system access to a person.
Avatar – Three dimensional representation or digital actor of a customer in a Web shop or in a chat room.
AVI – Audio Video Interleaved
Backbone – The top level of hierarchical network. Major pathway within a network offering the highest possible speed and connecting all major nodes.
Bandwith – The maximum amount of information that can be sent through a connection at a given time.
Application – A program that is self-contained and that executes a set of well-defined tasks under user control Application Program Interface – Interface that allows the communication between programs, networks and addresses. Archie – Piece of softwre for finding files on anonymous FTP sites. It searches only for file names, and has been replaced by ...
