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GEIA - Government Electronics and Information
Technology Association - government market sector of the Electronic
Industries Alliance (EIA). www.geia.org
GEO - Geostationary Satellites - Provide
regional coverage, has a 22,000-mile orbit, is a geosynchronous
orbit, has a 640 ms round-trip delay, needs a minimum of 8 satellites
to cover the region.
GigaPOP - GIGAbit Point of Presence -
high-speed switching point being developed by universities across
the U.S. as part of the Internet2 project
GigE - Gigabit Ethernet - Ethernet technology
that raises transmission speed to 1 Gbps. It is used primarily for
backbones
GII - Global Information Infrastructure
GIS - Geographic Information Systems - computer systems capable
of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geogrphically
referenced info
GMPCS - Global Mobile Personal Communications
by Satellite - a future mobile satellite system that will privde
global wireless phone service
GMSK - Gaussian filtered Minimum Shift Keying
GNOME - GNU Object Modeling Environment
- GUI-based user interface for Linux developed as part of the GNU
project. It provides an alternate to the KDE interface
GPRS - General Packet Radio Services - uses the mobile phone network
to carry data whenever circuits are not tied up by people talking.
Because the ddata is packetised, there does not need to be a one-to-one
connection bbetween sender and recipient. Devices can always on
and always looking for this data
GPS - Global Positioning Systems - a seriers of 24 geosynchronous
satellites that continually transmit their position. GPS is used
in personal tracking, navigation, and automatic vehical location
technolgies
GSAM - Generalized Sequential Access
Method - batch processing access method for IMS that allows sequential
files to be treated as IMS databases
GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications
- a digital mobile telephone system widely used in Europe and other
parts of the world.
GSMP - General Switch Management Protocol
- call setup protocol used in the IP Switch
GSM-Plus - an enhanced version of GSM
technology that will be developed to meet IMT-2000 capabilities
GSM-R - GSM for railway networks, uses
standard base station and switching infrastructure to provide fast
data transmission for railways
GUI - Graphic User Interface - a computing term referring to an
operating system or environment that displays options on the screen
as graphical symbols, icons or photographs
GUID - Globally Unique IDentifier - unique
number used to identify a COM object. It is computed by adding the
time and date to the network adapter's internal serial number
More to come!
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