Industry Terminology

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WAN – Wide Area Network. A network capable of transmission over large geographic areas that uses transmission lines provided by a common carrier.

Warm Swap - To replace a component without turning the power off. Although the computer system is on, the component itself must not be in use.

Web browser – Also known as a Web client program. Allows viewing and accessing of HTML documents.

Web page – A document created with HTML and is part of a group of hypertext documents or resources available on the World Wide Web.

Webmaster – A person or group of people who maintain and administer a web server. 

Wide SCSI - Wide SCSI refers to devices that use a 5 MHz SCSI bus speed on a 16-bit wide bus. It is also sometimes called Wide SCSI-2. The maximum transfer rate is 10 MB/s, and up to 16 devices are supported per bus.

Wide Ultra2 SCSI - Uses a 16-bit bus and supports data rates of 80 MB/sec.

WWW – World Wide Web.