Unbundling --
Directly translated, referred to the literal 'unbundling' of a group of
wires from a bundle of wires. In the telco world, to lower level access
providers, 'unbundling' refers to the 1996 ACT requirement given to
telcos to lease their wires to lower level access providers, therefore,
the telco must 'unbundle' a certain amount of their wires and sell
/lease to authorized providers.
UNIX --
A computer operating system. UNIX is designed to be
used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user) and has
TCP/IP
built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the
Internet.
URL -- (Uniform Resource
Locator) -- The standard way to give the
address of any resource on the Internet that is part of the World Wide
Web (WWW). A URL may look like this:
http://www.yourcompany.com
USB (Universal Serial Buss) --
High-speed interface specification derived for Desktop and laptop PC's.
Defines speeds to 100Mbps designed with specific cost consideration for
low cost peripherals
•Supports up to 127 devices
•Both
synchronous and
asynchronous
data transfers
•Up to 5 meters per cable segment
•Built in power distribution for low
power devices
•Supports daisy chaining through a
tiered star multidrop topology - ( www.usb.org)
See:
IEEE-1394
(Firewire)
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