Glossary Of Terms

54g performance enhancement that delivers the industry's fastest wireless throughput in real-world environments. It is designed for home networks that require high-speed throughput for multimedia applications, such as sharing digital pictures. See SpeedBooster.

Triple Data Encryption Standard (an encryption technique)

Third-generation mobile technology that usually includes services such as video telephony, downloading information, exchanging e-mail, and instant messaging.

3rd Generation Partnership Project: A global co-operation between six Organizational Partners (ARIB, CWTS, ETSI, T1, TTA, and TTC) who are recognized as being the world's major standardization bodies from Japan, China, Europe, USA, and Korea. The group is developing technical specifications for the migration of GSM to W-CDMA, the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) framework for third-generation mobile wireless standards.

3rd Generation Partnership Project 2: A collaborative third-generation (3G) telecommunications standards-setting project comprising North American and Asian interests developing global specifications for ANSI/TIA/EIA-41 Cellular Radio Telecommunication Intersystem Operations network evolution to 3G, and global specifications for the radio transmission technologies (RTTs) supported by ANSI/TIA/EIA-41.

Broadcom version of IEEE 802.11g draft radio standard