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Appendix 1 Glossary
Channel:
An instance of medium use for the purpose of passing
protocol data units (PDUs) that may be used
simultaneously, in the same volume of space, with other
instances of medium use(on other channels) by other
instances of the same physical layer (PHY),with an
acceptably low frame error ratio(FER) due to mutual
interference.
SSID:
SSID(Service Set Identifier) is the network name
shared by all devices in a wireless network. Your
network’s SSID should be unique to your network and
identical for all devices within the network. It is
case-sensitive and must not exceed 20 characters (use
any of the characters on the keyboard).Make sure this
setting is the same for all devices in your wireless
network.
WEP:
Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the method for
secure wireless data transmission.
WEP adds data
encryption to every single packet transmitted in the
wireless network.
The 40bit and 64bit encryption are
the same because of out 64 bits, 40 bits are