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The du Pré Jargon Buster found the following for - WNos A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| WAN | Wide Area Network. Communications networks that are created by the interlinking of LANs, geographically | |
| WAP | A cellular radio term. Wireless Application protocol. Maximum speed of 9.6Kbit/s, although by mid-2001, greater speeds were possible on certain networks with specific cellular phones. The de facto standard for transfering wireless web pages to cell phones and displaying them on small screens. In order to be WAP enabled, a cell phone must comprise a WAP browser capable of reading and displaying web pages coded in WML, one of the wireless equivalents to HTML, the markup language used in most pages on the regular World Wide Web. Successfully used and widespread in Europe, WAP is being increasingly adopted globally | |
| watt | A term of electricity power consumption. The relationship between watts and VA is: Watts x 0.7 = VA | |
| WCDMA | A cellular radio term. Wideband Code Division Multiple Access. A high speed third generation cellular technology adopted as a standard by the ITU under the name "IMT-2000 direct spread". WCDMA can reach speeds from 384 Kbps to 2 Mbps, which represents from 6 to 35 times more than what regular landline modems can do. At that speed, wideband services such as streaming video and video-conference | |
| Web | see World Wide Web | |
| Web Site | One set of pages on the World Wide Web | |
| Wide Area Network | see WAN | |
| Wideband ISDN | Has a greater bandwidth than PRA or BRA. Governed by the Q.931W standard, it is used by the Cable and Wireless Switchband service | |
| Windows | The leading operating environment and GUI from Microsoft | |
| Windows ’95 | Microsoft’s 32-bit operating system, which also includes some 16-bit coding to ensure backwards compatibility with Intel’s Pentium processor | |
| Windows '98 | The development which superceded Windows '95 | |
| Windows NT | The most recent Windows development from Microsoft. Designated Windows NT (New Technology), it is an operating system with built in networking capabilities | |
| Wireless Internet | A cellular radio term. The general term comprising WAP and other wireless Internet access technologies. For example, prior to the WAP protocol being adopted as the standard for wireless web access, Phone.com had developped its own wireless browser and markup language technology called HDML. Also, some cellular providers offer wireless web access from a user's laptop or notebook computer through a special modem that works either standalone or that connects to a cell phone | |
| Wireless Network | A network, or telephone system, that has no connecting cables. All transmission is by radio | |
| Withheld | A term typically used in telephony, when, for example, a caller has specifically withheld the transmission of their CLI such that CLIP is not possible | |
| WML | A cellular radio term. Wireless Markup Language. The markup language of the WAP protocol for Wireless Internet access. Pages written in WML can be read and displayed properly by cell phones with a small screen where standard HTML pages would produce a bad output and might even be unviewable | |
| Workstation | A term used to mean a PC, node or terminal. It is a device that has data input and output and is operated by a user. Also referred to as a station or client. More simply, as a PC connected to a client server network | |
| World Wide Web | see www | |
| Wrap-up key | A telephony term used with ACD working. A ‘wrap-up’ key provides a pre-definable interval between finishing one call and beginning another | |
| Writeback/Writethrough Cache | The different ways that cache data is saved into Cache, and whether it is done after (writeback) or during (writethrough) operations | |
| www | A set of electronic pages, mainly of text and graphics, available over the see Internet. Pages can contain links to other pages. These pages and links are known as hypertext. | |
| WYSIWYG | ‘What you see is what you get’. What you see on your screen is exactly what will appear on a printed document |