ngineering Library @ McGraw-Hill (www.digitalengineeringlibrary.com) Copyright © 2004 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use as given at the website. INDEX 1x Evolution-Data Only (EV-DO), 326 Advanced Research Projects Agency 3Com. 218, 222, 297,310 (ARPA), 36, 430 4.2BSD UNIX, 431 Agere, 466 56 kbps modems, 283-285 A-Law, 204 802.11, 354-356 Alcatel, 262, 297, 470 802.15, 364-365 Aldus Corporation, 79 802.16, 362-364 aliasing, 202 80:20 Rule, 262 All Channels Receiver Act of 1962, 316 9,600 bit-per-second modems, 29 Allen, Paul, 255 u-Law, 204 ALOHANET, 37 ALTAIR, 255 Alternate Mark Inversion (AMI), 27, 95 Alternate Space Inversion, 95 AM (amplitude modulation), 22, 23, AAL (adaptation layer) (ATM), 383, 312, 313 388-389 Amateur Radio Relay League Abernathy, Kathleen, 236 (ARRL), 429 ABR service (ATM), 239 AMD, 466 absorption (optical fibers), 400 American National Standards Institute Access BPL, 429 (ANSI, 7 access technologies, 15-18, 282-283 American Registry for Internet 56 kbps modems, 283-285 Numbers (ARIN), 434 Bluetooth, 334-335 American Speaking Telephone cable-based, 303-310 Company, 132 DSL, 291-303 American Standard Code for Infor- freespace optics, 334 mation Interchange (see ASCID ISDN, 285-291 Ameritech, 140, 431 LMDS, 331-332 Ampex, 272, 273 MMDS, 333 amplification, optical, 408-412 wireless, 310-335 amplitude modulation (see AM) active RFID systems, 340 analog technology, 21, 274-275. 292 Adams, Douglas, 33 Andreessen, Marc, 36, 38, 39 adaptation layer (see AAL) Angel Technologies, 348 Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Antheil, George, 352 Modulation (ADPCM), 205-206 Apple computers, 255 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), 443 Application Layer (OSI model), 55-57, addressing: 60, 62, 64-66 in ATM, 386-387 Application Layer (TCP/IP), 449-451 in Data Link Layer, 113, 115 applications service providers in IP, 439-443 (ASPs), 465 Adelphia, 432, 463 arithmetic, binary, 49-52 Adelstein, Jonathan, 236 arithmetic-logic unit (ALU), 245, 246 Advanced Intellige