Ethernet standardized as IEEE 802.3 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE refers to a group or family of frame-based computer networking technologies developed specifically for local area networks LAN . It was conceptualized in 1974 by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs at Xerox PARC. It has defined a common addressing format...

DSL or xDSL an umbrella term for the several types of DSL technology available stands for Digital Subscriber Line originally Digital Subscriber Loop . The term refers to a set of networking technologies that provide digital data transmission over local network telephone wires. It comes in several variants such as Asymmetric Digital Subscriber...

AppleTalk was developed by Apple Inc. for computer networking. AppleTalk is a set of protocols included in the original version of Macintosh in 1984. Unlike other early LAN systems AppleTalk was based on the OSI model of protocol layering and was not built on the archetypal Xerox XNS system although several portions of the AppleTalk system have direct...

An access point AP; or also WAP" for wireless access point" is a node responsible for the formation of a wireless network through connection between wireless communication devices. It acts as a central transmitter and receiver of wireless radio signals and is configured through an internet protocol IP address. Older models...

An aggregator also known as a feed reader RSS reader or feed aggregator is an online program or client software that collates syndicated web content referred to as feed" like blogs podcasts and vlogs from various sources into a single location for convenience in effect creating a unique information...

AirPort is a brand under the computer company Apple Inc. for wireless local area networks WLAN introduced commercially on July 21 1999. It is based in the 802.11b or Wi-Fi" standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE and it has been certified as compatible with other IEEE 802.11b devices. In common...