
436 Glossary
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Wait for dial tone
A feature that causes of sequence of numbers to pause until dial tone is present on
the line before continuing to dial. The Wait for dial tone symbol (‡) uses two of
the 24 spaces in a dialing sequence. This feature requires a Services or Combo
Cartridge.
Web cache
A web cache is a server or collection of servers that store copies of Internet content.
The web cache server can be either located on the LAN where the clients it serves
are also located, or it can be embedded within the enterprise WAN or at the client’s
Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Web proxy
Aweb proxy, orHTTPproxy,is a server that acts onbehalf of therequester of pages
from an HTTP server and the Internet.
Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ)
WFQ is a queuing method that allows low volume traffic such as Telnet to be given
priority and interactive traffic receives higher priority than batch transfers. Also,
high bandwidth usage traffic such as batch file transfer traffic gets equal priority
with other high bandwidth use traffic.
Wide Area Network (WAN)
A collection of computers or Enterprise Edge Servers connected or networked to
each other over long distances, typically using common carrier facilities.
wireless
See Companion.
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