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Glossary of Terms

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802.3 networkA 10-Mbps CSMA/CD bus-based network; commonly called Ethernet.
802.5 networkA token-passing ring network operating at 4 or 16 Mbps.
8B/10B encodingA signal modulation scheme in which either four bits are encoded into a five-bit word or eight bits are encoded in a 10-bit word to ensure that too many consecutive zeroes do not occur; used in ESCON and Fiber Channel.
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