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World Wide Web Consortium - Keepers of many of the standards used on the World Wide Web. See their home page for more information. |
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See Also: Internet
IETF
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See: Readerboard | |
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. |
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See Also: XML-RPC
SOAP
RPC
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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. |
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See Also: QoS
Type of Service
TCP/IP
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See: Weighted Fair Queuing | |
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Wireless LAN (WLAN) transmission technology more formally designated 802.11b. | |
See Also: 802.11b
802.11a
WLAN
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See: WAN | |
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On a telephone line, a signal that is comprised of an on-hook/off-hook/on-hook transition. | |
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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
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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. |
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See Also: 802.11
802.11b
802.11a
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SOAP based system for exchanging dictionary and term information. It is defined in Visual Basic ("dot-net") semantics. | |
See Also: MARTIF
CLS Framework
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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
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See: After Call Work | |
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See: After Call Work | |
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Wide Wavelength Division Multiplexing - A form of WDM in which a huge number of separate wavelengths are packed onto a single fiber optic strand. |
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See Also: WDM
Fiber Optics
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See: World Wide Web | |
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