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10Base2

 An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps 

over thin Ethernet cable.

10Base5 

An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps 

over thick Ethernet cable.

10BaseT

 An IEEE standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 10 Mbps 

over unshielded twisted-pair cable (the 

T

 stands for twisted pair).

100BaseVG

 An IEEE standard for using the new IEEE 802.12 protocol at 

100 Mbps over unshielded twisted-pair cable of type 5 or type 3.

100BaseT 

A proprietary standard for using IEEE 802.3 protocol at 100 

Mbps over unshielded twisted-pair cable. IEEE standards approval 

pending.

802.3

 An IEEE standard for the physical layer that specifies a CSMA/CD 

protocol. This is the standard protocol used for Ethernet. Refer to 

CSMA/CD

.

Address

 The unique code assigned to each device or workstation 

connected to the LAN.

Age

 The process of removing an address from the unit’s filtering 

database after the device has not transmitted for a given period of time.

ANSI

 American National Standards Institute.

Application layer

 Layer seven, the uppermost part of the OSI network 

layer model. This layer contains the user and application programs.