Why is it made out to be so confusing? Cant they make it more simple?
2006-09-05 21:18:16 · 3 answers · asked by Claude 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
LOL, grab your spoon and welcome to the alphabet soup of computer networking. I'm guessing we have more TLAs (three letter acronyms) than any other industry.
What makes it worse are the lovely NESTED acronyms, like POS which is Packet Over SONET where SONET is Synchronous Optical NETwork.
What makes it even worse still is that every vendor comes up with their own acronym for their own flavor of a technology and so it goes... No end in sight as new technology is developed so hang on.
Just make sure Wikipedia is in your favorites, it's gonna get even more interesting.
2006-09-06 07:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by networkmaster 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ADSL: Asymetric digital subscriber line. It splits your phone line into 3 channels. Upload, download and regular phone which means you can use your normal phone while connected. Its maximum speed goes at about 8Mbps. The upload and download speed are not equal (Unlike DSL). ADSL offers relatively slow upload speeds
WAN: Wide area network. It's most of the times wireless. It's a big network in which information is spread be it file sharing or internet connection sharing. It's like the wide etworks ISPs provide to their users.
LAN: Local area network. It's much smaller between two or more PCs it's wired otherwise it's called wLAN. It's mostly used for sharing like in office complexes and for gaming and all...
3G stands for third generation which is the 3d generation of mobile phone networks and services. 3G offers video streaming and broadband internet on the go, not to mention video conferences. It's even being implemented into some laptops. And it goes beyond the hot spots of WiFi
GPRS is the general, traditional way to transfer information between 2G enabled mobile phones. This protocol is also used for the service "WAP" which consists of browsing the net through the GPRS protocol using your 2G phone.
I hope this helps
2006-09-05 21:38:30 · answer #2 · answered by BlackholeUSA 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is simple, Broadband in general electronics and telecommunications is a term which refers to a signalling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which is ADSL and Cable, HSDPA is High-Speed Downlink Packet Access which is the same as 3G, WAN is wide area network , LAN is local area network, GPRS is General Packet Radio Service and IDSN is Integrated Services Digital Network
2006-09-05 21:36:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋