AR-PB2A (serv.man4). Cougar Connectivity Training Pre-course study guide (Glossary of Terms) - Sharp Copying Equipment Handy Guide. Page 8

A network that is used within a geographical area e.g. an office or building and interconnects a
variety of computers, terminals and PC’s.

LocalTalk refers to the cables and connectors used within an AppleTalk network on Apple
Macintosh computers.  Because of the slow speed of LocalTalk, it is limited to the number of
devices that can be connected.  Over the years, LocalTalk has become too slow for graphics and
colour image intensive applications, and so users have moved to Ethertalk.  LocalTalk uses
CSMA/CA as an access method in a bus or tree topology with Shielded Twisted Pair (STP),
Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) or even Fibre Optic Cable.

The MAC or Node Address is a specific address that is programmed into every network card
within the world.  As this address is different for every network card, it is used by many protocols
for determining where data should be sent across a network and from where it originated.

A utility software program that is bundled with the AR-NC1D Network Card for the
AR280/285/335.  This program is a Windows based HTML viewer that can be used to configure
the network card over an IPX/SPX protocol enabled network.

An Operating System, such as Novell’s Netware or Microsoft’s Windows NT Server. They
provide basic file system services and supervisory functions to computers connected to a network.

A circuit board that is installed into workstations, file servers and some printers to allow them to
communicate on a network.  The NIC puts data on and takes data off the network cable.

On the AR280/285/335, when the hard disk memory becomes full during printing, the print job is
output in sections equal to the size of the Printer Mode Hard disk memory size. To determine each
section that has been produced by the machine a notice page is produced as a separator sheet.