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W3C Edit     /     [top]    
  World Wide Web Consortium - Keepers of many of the standards used on the World Wide Web.

See their home page for more information.
  See Also: Internet     IETF    

 
Wallboard Edit     /     [top]    
  See: Readerboard
   

 
WAN Edit     /     [top]    
  Wide Area Network - A network spread over a wide geographical area. Typically this is thought of as a data network, but PSTN phone systems are also thought of as WANs.
  See Also: LAN     MAN    

 
WAP Edit     /     [top]    
  Wireless Application Protocol - An open, global specification designed to allow users of wireless devices to easily access and interact with information and services. The specification defines a system of virtual cards that use a subset of HTML and some proprietary mark-up. WAP can be used on most mobile platforms such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smartphones and communicators. It is available on most wireless networks, for use with most operating systems.
  See Also: 2.5G     3G     WLAN

 
WCDMA Edit     /     [top]    
  Wideband CDMA: An ITU standard 3G technology that is an upgrade for GSM and GPRS networks. It is also known as IMT-2000 direct spread.
  See Also: CDMA2000     TD-CDMA     3G

 
WDM Edit     /     [top]    
  Wavelength Division Multiplexing - A fiber optic transmission technique that increases the capacity of a single fiber by sending independent bit streams down multiple light waves, or 'lambdas', each forming its own circuit. That sounds very impressive but essentially it means that the light traffic sent over a single fiber is split into different colors of light so that more than a single beam of light may be carried.
  See Also: WWDM        

 
Web Callback Edit     /     [top]    
  A technique whereby a website visitor indicates through a button push or a hypertext link that he or she would like an agent to call on a separate phone line. The agent receiving the request then calls the number provided by the visitor in order to complete the transaction. This is useful for the many web site visitors who use a single phone line for voice and browsing. It allows them to hang up their connection and then await a call on the same line. It is also useful for making contact with web-site visitors who have separate voice and data lines.
  See Also: Web-Enable     Text Chat     Agent

 
Web Services Edit     /     [top]    
  A term that many are using but few are providing usable definitions for.

Adam Bosworth of BEA recently stepped up to the plate and offered this definition:

The term Web Services refers to an architecture that allows applications to talk to each other. Period. End of statement.

This definition is authoritative and useful but it also encompasses the entire Internet, TCP/IP, Netware, RPC, SNMP, and USB to name just a few.

The W3C says a web service is:

a software application identified by a URI, whose interfaces and bindings are capable of being defined, described, and discovered as XML artifacts. A Web service supports direct interactions with other software agents using XML-based messages exchanged via Internet-based protocols.
  See Also: XML-RPC     SOAP     RPC

 
Weighted Fair Queuing Edit     /     [top]    
  WFQ - A method of delivering QoS on TCP data networks. This is a flow-based queuing algorithm that schedules low-volume traffic first, while letting high-volume traffic share the remaining bandwidth. Because it does not attempt to control or provide guaranteed minimum latency or throughput, it is not a good QoS method to use with VoIP.
  See Also: QoS     Type of Service     TCP/IP

 
WFQ Edit     /     [top]    
  See: Weighted Fair Queuing
   

 
Wi-Fi Edit     /     [top]    
  Wireless LAN (WLAN) transmission technology more formally designated 802.11b.
  See Also: 802.11b     802.11a     WLAN

 
Wide Area Network Edit     /     [top]    
  See: WAN
   

 
Wink Edit     /     [top]    
  On a telephone line, a signal that is comprised of an on-hook/off-hook/on-hook transition.
   

 
WinSock Edit     /     [top]    
  A version of Sockets (a standard call level interface to networks for programmers) made for Windows[rt] and encapsulating special requirements of Windows programming (namely, callbacks, and asynchronous returns). The interface is "almost" fully compliant with Sockets, but because Windows programming is so different from other forms of programming, there are some important differences in the way programmers use it to make network calls. Hence the different name.
  See Also: Sockets        

 
WLAN Edit     /     [top]    
  Wireless LAN: A local area network that operates over the air via radio transmissions instead of over copper or fiber optic cables. Some examples of wireless LAN standards include 802.11a and 802.11b.

Many people have used WLANs to set up Neighborhood Area Networks (NANs) to share a single high speed (expensive) access point with neighbors and nearby businesses.
  See Also: 802.11     802.11b     802.11a

 
World Wide Lexicon Edit     /     [top]    
  SOAP based system for exchanging dictionary and term information. It is defined in Visual Basic ("dot-net") semantics.
  See Also: MARTIF     CLS Framework    

 
World Wide Web Edit     /     [top]    
  What you are using right now. An international collection of cross linked documents stored on the Internet, which are normally viewed with web browsers such as Internet Explorer (Microsoft) or Netscape Communicator.
  See Also: Internet     Browser    

 
Wrap-up Edit     /     [top]    
  See: After Call Work
   

 
Wrap Edit     /     [top]    
  See: After Call Work
   

 
WWDM Edit     /     [top]    
  Wide Wavelength Division Multiplexing - A form of WDM in which a huge number of separate wavelengths are packed onto a single fiber optic strand.
  See Also: WDM     Fiber Optics    

 
WWW Edit     /     [top]    
  See: World Wide Web
   




 
   

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