Contrasted with a departmental network or work area network. This does not prevent systems from setting up private arrangements with each other to bypass the backbone for reasons of cost, performance, or security. However, as typically used, the amount of data that can be sent through a given communications circuit. A transmission medium through which digital signals are sent without complicated frequency shifting. In general, only 1 communication channel is provided at a time on a baseband system.
Ethernet is a baseband network.
Sometimes incorrectly lumped under the term ASN.1, which properly refers only to the abstract syn- tax description language, not the encoding technique. This acronym is used to describe the versions of the UNIX operating system and its utilities developed and distributed by the University of California at Berke- ley. Many Internet hosts run BSD software, and it has been the ancestor of many commer- cial UNIX implementations. The reverse convention is called little-endian. Protocol described in RFC 951 used for booting diskless nodes.