Aussie Phone Brokers - Telecommunications Glossary
'W' Glossary Terms
- WAN - Wide Area Network
- Data network where the distance between units prohibits the use of a LAN (Local Area Network) solution. WANs are high-speed, long-distance technologies to connect nodes of the network.
- WAP - Wireless Application Protocol
- Set of protocols which enable mobile devices to access online content. WAP will be extended and superseded by the introduction of 3G technology into the online content market space.
- WCDMA - Wideband CDMA
- The 3G wireless communications standard which evolved from CDMA. Also called UMTS.
- Web
- The global network of servers on the Internet, which allow access to html and other resources. The web uses the http protocol. Also called www and the World Wide Web.
- Web Browser
- A user interface for interaction on the web. The web browser fetches html and other documents from web servers and displays them for the user.
- Web Server
- A computer connected to the Internet that stores webpages and other files. These HTML documents and other files can be retrieved using a Web browser.
- Wi-Fi - Wireless Fidelity
- Specified as 802.11b by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Wi-Fi is wireless technology for creating networks up to around 100m, at 2.4 GHz. Wi-Fi is used to create LANs without the physical connections.
- Wireless Broadband
- Broadband services which are non land-based (and non satellite-based).
- Wireless (Telecommunications)
- Transmission medium which is not land-based. Refers to the parts of the EMR spectrum which can be effectively used for telecommunications transmission. RF, IR, FM, AM, UV and microwave are all used for telecommunications.
- Wireless Carrier
- Company that provides mobile telecommunications services; either as a retailer or a wholesaler. Also called mobile phone carriers, mobile carriers and mobile network providers.
- WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access
- Data encryption specification for Wi-Fi networks. Higher security than WEP. It improves on WEP by using dynamic keys, EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) to secure network access, and an encryption method called Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP).
- www - World Wide Web
- Information and communication network using the Internet to access hypertext documents. Hypertext documents (often webpages) contain text, images, video and other hypertext items.
These pages contains commonly used terms and their definitions for the Australian telecommunications industry. The terms found here refer to the ICT industry (Information and Communication Technology), IT industry (Information Technology) and the general Telecommunications Industry - including Mobile Telecommunications, Fixed Line services and IP telecommunications.
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