Last updated: 27/03/2020
- Broadband
- A service or connection generally defined as being ‘always on’ and providing a bandwidth greater than narrowband.
- Hub
- Hardware that connects devices on a home automation network and controls communications among them.
- Internet
- A global network of networks, using a common set of standards (e.g. Internet Protocol), accessed by users with a computer via a service provider.
- IP
- Internet Protocol. The packet data protocol used for routing and carrying messages across the internet and similar networks.
- ISP
- Internet Service Provider. The packet data protocol used for routingand carrying messages across the internet and similar networks.
- PSTN
- Public Switched Telephone Network. The network that manages circuit-switched fixed-line telephone systems.
- Router
- A box that plugs into a telephone socket which relays connections to and from the Internet and creates a wireless computer network, linking all your computers together.
- VoIP
- Voice over internet protocol. A technology that allows users to send calls using internet protocol, using either the public internet or private IP networks.