Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - Advanced encryption algorithm adopted by the US government. The standard comprises of three block ciphers, AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256 and is the de facto encryption standard for commercial transactions.

Bandwidth - Bandwidth is measured in bits per second. It is the amount of data or voice traffic that can be sent over a network connection at any given time.

Base Stations - A point of origin that Fireline Broadband uses to broadcast and receive signals to and fro subscriber unit radios on the rooftop of a customer location.

Cat 5 - An Ethernet network cable that contains four pairs of copper wire. It supports Fast Ethernet speeds up to 100Mbps.

Data Center - facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.

Diverse Path Failover (DPF) - Fireline Broadband can provide added protection from downtime by automatically “failing over” customers service to a backup circuit.

Ethernet handoff - network standard of handoff for data transmission, most commonly used on local area networks (LANs).

Firewall - a combination of software and hardware that limits your access to a WWW site and provides a degree of security.

Fixed Wireless Network - A Fixed wireless network is capable of transmitting data over-the-air using equipment that is stationary instead of mobile.

GigE Speeds - abbreviation for “Gigabit Ethernet” and is used to describe different technologies for transmitting Ethernet data at a speed of one gigabit per second. (1Gbps = 1,000 Mbps)

Internet Service Provider (ISP) - A Company that offers its customers access to the Internet.

Last-Mile Connection - the final segment between an Internet service provider’s infrastructure and a subscriber location.

Latency Level - The amount of time it takes a voice or data packets to travel from any point on our network to our outbound gateways.

Local Area Network (LAN) - a network covering a small physical area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings, such as a school, or an airport.

Mbps - Mega (1 million) bits per second

Microwave radio- equipment used to transmit between two locations on a line-of-sight radio path, forming a fixed radio connection between the two points.

Path Diversity - having multiple routes available to reach a destination.

Point of Presence (POPs) - An hub, central point or access point to the Internet provided by Fireline Broadband’s backbone.

Scalability - refers to the ability of a network to increase total throughput to handle the growing needs of data flow.

Service Level Agreements (SLA) - part of a service agreement where the level of service is formally defined and there is a common understanding about services, priorities, responsibilities, guarantees and warranties.

Redundancy - is the quality of systems or elements of a system that are backed up with secondary resources

Redundant Wireless Backhaul - Traffic that goes from the base station to Fireline Broadband’s BGP ring and onto the Internet. We use multiple wireless connections from each base station to our core so the link is redundant and more reliable.

Remote Data Services - Ability to back up your critical data to a remote facility through a managed service rather than to local tape drives.

Subscriber Unit (SU) - radio placed on the rooftop of a customer location in order to send and receive data.

T-1 connection - a connection able to transmit up to 1.544 Mbps of data

Virtual Private Network (VPN) - a “virtual network” is created used to connect offices. Users are able to share information over a public infrastructure but data sent across the internet is encrypted.

Wholly Owned Network - A term used to describe an Internet Service Provider (such as Fireline Broadband) that owns and operates its own network and infrastructure and does not resell or leases another Internet Service Provider’s network in order to provide customers with services.

Wide Area Network (WAN) - a network that covers a broad geographic area across metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries. WANs are used to connect LANs and other types of networks together, so that users and computers in one location can communicate with users and computers in other locations.

Wi-Fi - The standard widely used for wireless local area networks in coffee shops and Internet cafes. Wi-Fi has a short signal range.

WiMAX – Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, telecommunication technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances in a variety of ways. It is based on the IEEE 802.16 standard. WiMAX was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformance and interoperability of the standard.