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DSM-120 User's Manual Glossary
SSID (Service Set Identifier): The name designated for a specific wireless local area network
(WLAN). The SSID can be easily changed to connect to an existing wireless network.
Static IP: A static IP address is configured manually on the device that will be using it. A static
IP address remains the same constantly and must be a unique address.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy): A security protocol for wireless local area networks (WLAN)
that is designed to provide the same level of security as a wired network. WEP provides
security by encrypting the data sent over the WLAN. The DSM-120 supports 64-bit and 128-
bit encryption.
Wired: Devices networked via Ethernet cabling.
Wireless: Devices networked using radio frequencies instead of physical cabling.

Music

M3U is a playlist format and is the default playlist format of WinAMP and most other media
player software. It allows multiple files to be queued in a program in a specific format.
MP3 is the file extension for MPEG-1, audio layer 3. Layer 3 is one of three coding schemes
(layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3) for the compression of audio signals. Layer 3 removes the
redundant and irrelevant parts of a sound signal, which the human ear does not hear. It uses
Modified Discrete Cosine Transform to implement a filter bank, increasing the frequency
resolution 18 times higher than that of layer 2.
PLS is a proprietary playlist format used for playing Shoutcast and other audio streams.
WMA is short for Windows Media Audio and is an audio format that was created by Microsoft.
It is similar to MP3, although WMA can compress at a higher rate than MP3.
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