Key Terms The Online World

Unit 1 Data Exchange

Key Word

Definition

Data

Facts and statistics collected together for

reference or analysis.

Devices / Components

Thing made or adapted for a particular

purpose, especially a piece of mechanical or
electronic equipment.
(Of a device) able to be attached to and used
with a computer, though not an integral part
of it.
A device or program that compresses data to
enable faster transmission and decompresses
received data.
A piece of a message transmitted over a
packet-switching network

Peripheral

Codec

Internet Packets

VoIP

Wireless Networks

Voice over Internet Protocol is a category of

hardware and software that enables people to
use the Internet as the transmission medium
for telephone calls by sending voice data in
packets using IP rather than by traditional
circuit transmissions of the PSTN.
The word wireless is dictionary defined as
"having no wires".

Simplex Transmission

Sends data in the one direction only. Radio

broad cast

Half-duplex Transmission

Allows two-way- transmissions but the

devices dont transmit at the same
time
Allows-two-way- communication at the same
time

Full-Duplex Transmission

Parallel Transmission

Serial Transmission

Client Side Processing

Server-Side Processing

A number of bits of data are transmitted

simultaneously over an equal number of
wires/channels
Bits are transmitted one at a time over a
single wire.
Is the use of a scripting language to create
code one web pages which provides
interactivity
Includes the use of scrips which reside and
are run on another computer on the internet