Talking Glossary from EllisTalks of Telecom and Networking Terms

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Term	Bandwidth	Time	Term	Level
3DES	512 k 256 k	0:24	Triple Data Encryption Standard
AES	512 k 256 k	0:28	Advanced Encryption Standard
AH	512 k 256 k	0:46	Authentication Header
Business Continuity	512 k 256 k	0:37	Business Continuity
Blinding the Operator	512 k 256 k	0:40	Blinding the Operator
Broadband	512 k 256 k	2:11	Broadband
DoS	512 k 256 k	0:40	Denial of Service
DMZ	512 k 256 k	0:49	Demilitarized Zone
DNS	512 k 256 k	1:01	Domain Name Service
ESP	512 k 256 k	0:52	Encapsulating Security Payload
Firewall	512 k 256 k	1:15	Firewall
HA	512 k 256 k	0:28	High Availability
IDS	512 k 256 k	0:55	Intrusion Detection System
IKE	512 k 256 k	2:19	Internet Key Exchange
IP	512 k 256 k	2:08	Internet Protocol
IPSec	512 k 256 k	1:54	Internet Protocol Security
IPSec SA	512 k 256 k	1:03	Internet Protocol Security Association
Load Balancers	512 k 256 k	0:34	Load Balancers
Multi-Homed ISP	512 k 256 k	0:36	Multi-Homed ISP
Packet Filtering	512 k 256 k	0:37	Packet Filtering
SA	512 k 256 k	1:54	Security Association
Sensors	512 k 256 k	0:28	Sensors
SHA-1	512 k 256 k	1:03	Secure Hashing Algorithm version 1
Shunning APIs	512 k 256 k	0:28	Shunning APIs
SIMS	512 k 256 k	0:34	Security Information Management
Split Tunnel	512 k 256 k	1:15	Split Tunnel
SSL	512 k 256 k	0:41	Secure Sockets Layer
TLS	512 k 256 k	0:44	Transport Layer Security
VPN	512 k 256 k	1:00	Virtual Private Network

Topics below can be viewed with Real Player (Soon to be available for MS Media Player)

Term	Bandwidth	Time	Term (Difficulty Ratings:Easy ModerateDifficult)	Level
ARP	Real Player (streamed)	1:08	Address Resolution Protocol
ASP	Real Player (for firewall)	0:39	Application Service Provider
BGP4	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	1:21	Border Gateway Protocol
FTP	Real Player (for firewall)	1:10	File Transfer Protocol
HTTP	Real Player (for firewall)	0:54	Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IETF	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	0:54	Internet Engineering Task Force
ISP	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	0:16	Internet Service Provider
L2F	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	0:16	Layer 2 Forwarding Protocol
L2TP	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	0:55	Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
MAC	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	2:22	Media Access Control
MPLS	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	0:54	Multi Label Protocol Switching
NSP	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	0:34	Network Service Provider
PPTP	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	0:35	Point to Point Tunneling Protocol
RFC	Real Player (for firewall)	0:34	Request for Comments Search for RFCs.
xSP	Real Player (streamed) Real Player (for firewall)	0:37	Service Provider