In today’s rapidly evolving digital world, the internet is no longer a luxury but a fundamental part of daily life. From remote work to digital learning, streaming entertainment to smart home technologies, the breadth of internet applications is vast and continually expanding. The terminology accompanying these digital innovations can often be as complex as the technology itself. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a professional seeking to enhance your digital literacy, or simply a curious individual navigating the world wide web, understanding these terms is essential.
Our comprehensive “Broadband & Internet Glossary of Terms” serves as your definitive guide to demystifying the jargon. We’ve gathered an extensive list of terms, definitions and meanings to help you understand what broadband and internet technologies are about. From basic concepts like ‘bandwidth’ and ‘DSL’ to ‘Latency’ and ‘Fibre Optics,’ this glossary aims to convert confusing technical language into clear, understandable information.
We will continue to expand this list of terms on an ongoing basis. We also soon allow you to request terms to be added to this list.
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- Ethernet Powerlink (EPL)
- Ethernet Switch
- Event Distribution Gateway
- Event-Driven Programming
- Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO)
- Exa-Scale
- Exact Match Lookup (EML)
- Exception Handling
- Exclusive OR (XOR)
- Exponential Backoff
- Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
- Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)
- Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
- External Filtering
- External Hard Drive
- External Network Adapter
- Extranet
- Extranet Gateway
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- Fading
- Failover
- Failover Cluster
- Fair Queuing
- Fallback Mechanism
- Fast Ethernet (FE)
- Fast Packet Switching
- Fault Tolerance
- Fiber Access Terminal
- Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
- Fiber Distribution Terminal
- Fiber Node
- Fiber Optic Communication
- Fiber Optic Splice Closure
- Fiber Optic Termination Box
- Fiber Optics
- Fiber to the Building (FTTB)
- Fiber to the Cabinet (FTTC)
- Fiber to the Curb (FTTC)
- Fiber-to-the-Home
- Fiber to the Home (FTTH)
- Fiber to the Node (FTTN)
- Fiber to the Office (FTTO)
- Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP)
- Field Area Network (FAN)
- Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
- Field Termination
- File Allocation Table (FAT)
- File-Based Encryption
- File Descriptor
- File Mirroring
- File Server
- File Sharing
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- File Transfer Protocol Secure (FTPS)
- Filtering Service
- Firewall
- Firewall Appliance
- Firewall Rule
- Firmware Image
- Firmware Over The Air (FOTA)
- Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC)
- Fixed Wireless
- Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)
- Flash Memory
- Flexible Service Plan
- Flow-Based Load Balancing
- Flow Control Mechanism
- Flow Label Switching
- Fog Computing
- Forward Collision Avoidance
- Forward Error Correction (FEC)
- Forwarding Information Base (FIB)
- Frame Aggregation
- Frame Check Sequence (FCS)
- Frame Error Rate
- Frame Relay
- Frequency Allocation
- Frequency Band
- Frequency-Division Duplexing (FDD)
- Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)
- Frequency Hopping
- Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)
- Frequency Reuse
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- Full-Duplex
- Full Duplex Communication
- Full Duplex Ethernet
- Full-Duplex Ethernet
- Full Mesh
- Full Mesh Network
- Full Path Redundancy
- Fully Meshed Network
- Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
- Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)
- Fuzzing
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- Gateway
- Gateway Configuration
- Gateway Interface
- Gateway Load Balancer
- Gateway Protocol
- Gateway Router


