- T1
- A leased-line specification providing for
24 frames with an aggregate
bandwidth of up to 1.544Mbps.
See also
E1
- T3
- A leased-line specification providing for
an aggregate bandwidth of 44.746Mbps.
- TACACS
- Terminal Access Control Access Control System.
An obsolete standard for
authentication,
TACAS was commonly used on Cisco and other terminal servers and
routers.
TACACS was defined in RFC 1492, and is superseded by
TACACS+ and RADIUS.
- TACACS+
-
Terminal Access Control Access Control System, TACACS+ adds
enhanced support for challenge-response authentication and encrypted
communication between the client and server.
See also
AAA> and
RADIUS.
- Tar
- A program used to create a single file
archive
from several files, often used to distribute programs for Unix. The
Unix command
has many options.
- Terabyte
- A unit of measurement of data storage capacity, a terabyte is
1,000 gigabytes, or approximately 1.0485760e12.
(cole)
- Terminal
- Any display unit or host used interactively.
Generally used to refer to a serially connected text-only remote access
device.
- Terminal Server
- A network device used to connect multiple terminals or other remote
devices to a network.
See also:
NAS and
RAS.
- TCP/IP
- Acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a
Networking standard commonly used on the
Internet.
- Telnet
- A communications protocol for connecting to other
computers locally or across the
Internet.
- TFTP
- Trivial File Transfer Protocol, this is a simplified version of
FTP without
authentication
and many other basic features. Often used for
booting devices over a network.
- TGP
- Acronym for "Thumbnail Gallery Post",
a HTML page containing a number of
small, 'thumbnail images,
usually pornographic, designed to entice the viewer to
pay for access to access to high-resolution versions of the
same or similar images.
- Throbber
- The animated download 'working'
icon in the upper right corner of most graphical
web browsers.
- Thumbnail,
- A thumbnail image is a reduced-size version of a larger image,
usually smaller in not only bytes and
pixels, but also reduced resolution and colors.
Generally used to provide an easy visual index to a group of
pictures, often as part of a 'contact sheet' or
TGP,
- TIA
- An acronym for The Internet Adapter, a
program that allows pseudo-
SLIP connections from a normal shell account.
Also used to mean 'Thanks in Advance'.
The program TIA has been discontinued, superceded by
SLiRP is a free program
that performs a similar function.
See also:
TCP/IP,
Internet.
- TMK
- Shorthand for To My Knowledge
See also:
ROTFL,
IMHO.
- Traceroute
- Similar to
ping, traceroute shows the route to a selected
host
(note that the route to a host may differ from the route
from a host) with the time required for a packet to get
to each intermediate host or router.
- Trunk
- An unswitched line between telephone or long-distance company offices,
used to carry voice, data, or billing information.
(suess)
- Twin-Ax
- Similar to
coax, but with two internal conductors, Twinaxial
cable is the standard for connecting IBM 3270 terminals.