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Glossary

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Internet

The Internet is a wide-area network (WAN) linking several million users around the

world. A number of Protocols have been created for exchanging data, and these are

known collectively as TCP/IP. All participants on the Internet can be identified by an IP

address. Servers are addressed by Domain names (e.g. siemens.com). Domain names

are assigned to IP addresses by the Domain Name Service (DNS).

These are some of the main Internet services:

u Electronic mail (e-mail)

u The World Wide Web (WWW)

u File transfer (FTP)

u Discussion forums (Usenet / Newsgroups)

Internet service provider

An Internet service provider offers access to the Internet for a fee.

Internet telephony

Transmission of voice via the Internet (Voice over IP).

Internet protocol

The IP Protocol is one of the TCP/IP protocols. It is responsible for addressing parties in a

network using IP addresses and routes data from the sender to the recipient. It decides

the paths along which the data packets travel from the sender to the recipient in a com-

plex network (routing).

IP address

The IP address is the unique network-wide address of a network component in a net-

work based on the TCP/IP protocols (e.g. in a local area network (LAN) or on the Inter-

net). The IP address has four parts (each with up to three-position digit sequences) sep-

arated by full stops (e.g. 192.168.1.1). The IP address comprises the network number

and the computer number. Depending on the Subnet mask, one, two or three parts

form the network number; the remainder form the computer number. You can find out

the IP address of your PC using the ipconfig command.

IP addresses can be assigned manually (see Static IP address) or automatically (see

Dynamic IP address).

On the Internet Domain names are normally used instead of the IP addresses. The DNS

is used to assign domain names to IP addresses.

The Gigaset SX763 WLAN dsl has a Private IP address and a Public IP address.

IPoA

IP over ATM

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