Vocabulary Unit 1

Vocabulary Unit 1

1. Bandwidth

   • transmission capacity

2. Internet

   • Global computer network

3. Protocol

   • official procedure of rules governing affairs of state occasions

4. IETF

   • body that defines standard internet operating protocols

5. Bit Rate

   • number of bits per second that can be transmitted along a digital network

6. Binary

   • involving 2 things

7. Net Neutrality

   • principle that internet service providers should enable access to all content

8. Latency

   • state of existing but not yet being developed or manifest/time it takes

9. TCP

   • manages sending and receiving of packages

10. Abstractions

    • reducing information and detail to focus on essential characteristics

11. HTTP/URL

    • high level protocol- how users of the internet request/receive data. Address of a world

12. Bit

    • One piece of information

13. Packets

    • a paper or cardboard container

14. IP Address

    • Unique numbers separated by periods

15. DNS

    • converting alphabetic systems in IP Address

16. Redundancy

    • something is repetitive and repeated