The following glossary defines terms related to the IT Industry.
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T1
Dedicated telecommunications line providing 1.5 Mbps of bandwidth. Consists of 24 individual channels 64 Kbps each, that can be configured for voice or data transmission. T1 lines can be leased by businesses that required a dedicated Net connection of with higher reliability than a DSL and faster than an ISDN line but are still quite expensive.
T3
Dedicated telecommunications line providing 44 Mbps of bandwidth. T3 lines are often used by ISPs to connect to the Internet backbone.
Tcl
Tool command language. Simple scripting language and library often used for GUI, string-manipulation, testing, and integration of multiple components.
TCP
(Transmission Control Protocol) is the most important of the network protocols used in the Internet.
TCP/IP
(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). This protocol suite is the de facto standard for the today's Internet. TCP is a higher level protocol that runs on top of the IP protocol.
Telnet
Character-based protocol for connecting with remote systems. Still popular among hosts, but it is being replaced by much more secure SSH access.
Terabyte (TB)
1024 gigabytes
TIA
Telecommunications Industry Association. Another telecommunications standards organization.
TLD
Top Level Domain. The domain name elements at the right, such as .com, .org or .gov. Recently, new TLDs like .pro or .museum were added to supplement older TLDs. ccTLDs (country code TLDs), like .uk or .fr are used per-country.
Traceroute
A computer program that lists network hosts visited by a packed on the way to its destination. Very useful for network debugging.
Traffic
Data packets being transmitted over a network.
Twisted Pair
A pair of wires twisted one around the other. Very common in the networking applications.
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