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Physical	Protocol	Speed	Typical Use
PC Connecter (Connectors)
Serial	RS-232	9.6Kbps - 115Kbps	modems, PDA
Parallel	Centronics	150K Bytes/sec	printer, Scanner
Enhanced Parallel (EPP)	IEEE 1284-B	600K Bytes/sec - 1.5M Bytes/s	printer, Scanner
USB	USB-1.1	1.5Mbps, 12Mbps	scanners, printers, cameras, modems, CD-ROM drives, PDAs
USB-2	480 Mbits/sec	Available 2002 - scanners, printers, cameras, modems, CD-ROM drives, PDAs
USB OTG	USB OTG	?	Available 2002 - cameras, mobil phones, PDAs, GPS, printer, PC
FireWire 400 (i.Link)	IEEE 1394	100-400Mbps	Digital Video, CD-RW, HardDisks
FireWire 800	1394b	800Mbps - 3.2Gbps	Digital Video, CD-RW, HardDisks
eSATA	SATA/150	150 MByte/sec	External Hard Drive. Notebooks can use a PCI card.
eSATA	SATA II or SATA/3Gbs	300 MByte/sec	External Hard Drive. Notebooks can use a PCI card.	External Hard Drive.
SCSI	1	5 MByte/sec	scanners, hard disk	External Hard Drive.
SCSI	Fast Wide 2	20 MByte/sec	scanners, hard disk
SCSI	Ultra	160 MByte/sec	Data storage
Fibre Channel		133Mbps - 4.2Gbs	Communications & SAN
Ethernet	802.3	10Mbps (10Base-T)	LAN, DSL, Cable Modem
Ethernet	802.3u	100Mbps (100Base-TX)	LAN
Wireless		(see Wireless below)
Infrared	IrDA-SIR	9600 bps to 115.2 Kbps	PDA, Printer, LAN 1-10 ft.
Infrared	IrDA-MIR	1.15 Mbps
Infrared	IrDA-FIR	4 Mbps
PC Card	PCMCIA	(see Internal Connectors below)

Physical	Protocol	Speed	Typical Use
Modem		(see Data Comm. Equip. below)
Audio-Video (AV)
Analog
VGA	VGA, SVGA, XVA,		PC Monitor
RGB			RGB Monitor
RCA	composite video NTSC/PAL		CamCorder, VCR, TV
S-Video			CamCorder, VCR, TV
S/PDIF	IEC-958		CD, DVD (75 ohm coax)
Digital
DVI-D			Digital Video - Digital Only
DVI-I			Digital Video Integrated - capable of an additional analog signal for legacy devices.
ADC			Apple Display Connector
HDMI			Hi Definition TV
Internal PC Connector (Connectors)
System Bus	ISA	16 bit 8 Mhz	NIC, Video Card, Sound Card, Modem, Interface card (SCSI, USB, ..)
System Bus	EISA	32 bit 8 Mhz
System Bus	PCI	32-64 bit 33 Mhz (132MBs)
System Bus	AGP 2x	32 bit 66 Mhz (528MBs)	Video Card for fast 3D video.
System Bus	AGP 4x	1 Gbs	Video Card for fast 3D video.
PC Card	PCMCIA	16 bit 20 MBytes/sec	modem, NIC, CDPD, RAM
CardBus	PCMCIA	32 bit 80 MBytes/sec
ATA	IDE	33-100 MBytes/s	Hard disk controller
ATAPI	IDE	1-6 MBytes/s	CD-ROM interface
SCSI		40-160 MBytes/s	Hard disk controller
DRAM	FPM, EDO	200-320 MBytes/s	memory chips
DRAM	SDRAM	528 MBytes/s - 1.1 GBytes/s	memory chips
DRAM	RDRAM	1.6 GBytes/s	memory chips
DRAM	DDR SDRAM	1.6-2.1 GBytes/s	memory chips

ISP (Internet Service Provider) Modem & Data Comm. Equip. (DCE) to DCE - Remote Access Typical Use: Internet (Web), e-mail, VoIP telephone
Fax	V.29	9600 bps
Fax	V.17	14,400 bps
Modem	V.90	up to 56Kbps downstream
Modem	V.34bis	up to 33.6Kbps
Modem	V.34	28.8Kbps
ISDN		64-128Kbps for BRI, 1.5Mbps for PRI
DSL/ADSL		Typical Downstream 384Kbps; Upstream 128Kbps Max. downstream 7.1 Mbps upstream 680Kbps higher speeds cost more
Cable Modem analog See HFC below for digital		Typical Downstream: 1 Mbps; Upstream 128Kbps Max: 52 Mbps downstream; upstream: 4 Mbps uses 1 - 6 MHz channel for downstream: 27-36Mbps agregated;
Fiber to the Home (FTTH)		Typical Downstream 10-20 Mbps; Upstream 2-5 Mbps Verizon FiOS offers 30 Mbps for business. Fiber is capable of 2.5 Gbps/channel
Broadband over Powerline (BPL)
CATV		50 - 330, 450 or 550 MHz (6MHz/channel)
HFC upstream	QPSK/16 QAM	5 to 42 MHz voice/data 760-1000 MHz future signaling and other 2-way 3 Mbps
HFC downstream	64/256 QAM DOCSIS	50 to 550 80 NTSC TV cannels; 550 750 digital TV 750 - 860 MHz data (up to 38Mbps/6MHz channel)
HDTV	8-VSB	19.4Mbps over 6MHz channel
See Speed Tests

Physical	Band	Speed	Typical Use
Wireless (Antenna Connectors)
Local Comm (PAN)
BlueTooth	2.4GHz	720 Kbps	PAN, PDA, Mobil Phone to PC Distance 30-300 ft., common use by 2004
Infrared IrDA-SIR	IR	9600 bps to 115.2 Kbps	PDA, Printer, LAN 1-10 ft.
Home RF	2.4GHz	1.6 Mbps	PAN, (future 10 Mbps)
802.11b (Wi-Fi)	2.4GHz	1,2,5.5,11 Mbps	PAN (Apple AirBus),PDA, Mobil Phone to PC Distance 50-500 ft. 11Mbps 100-175 ft. 5.5Mbps, 175-200 ft. 2 Mbps
802.11g	2.4GHz	54 Mbps	PAN/WLAN 50-300 ft.
802.11a (Wi-Fi5)	5.5 GHz	54, 108 Mbps	PAN/WLAN Distance 0-20 ft. 54Mbps, 20-40' 48Mbps, 40-75' 36Mbps, 75-85' 24Mbps, 20-135 ft. 18Mbps, 135-175' 12Mbps, 175-200+ 6Mbps
802.11n	2.4 and 5 GHz	100 Mbps	PAN/WLAN 50-300 ft. avail. 2007
Wide Area Comm
CDPD	800MHz	19.2 Kbps (14.4 thruput)	E-mail, Web, meter reading
GSM	900MHz	9.6 Kbps
ARDIS	800MHz	19.2 Kbps
RAM	900MHz	8 Kbps
Ricochet	902MHz	28 Kbps
GPRS	900,1800MHz 171 Kbps	2.5G Voice/data mobil phone
CDMA2000 (1xRTT)	824 MHz, 1.9 GHz	153 Kbps	2.5G Voice/data mobil phone (test by Sprint and Lucent 4/2001, avail 2003)
CDMA2000 1xEV	1.9 GHz	3G 2 Mbps Data only fixed
WAP	Works over CDPD, CDMA, TDMA, GSM,...		Short messages and e-mail to cell phones and pagers
LMDS	28GHz	Downstream: 1.5-2 Gbps, Upstream 200Mbps	Wireless data to business
MMDS	2.5GHz	720 Kbps	Wirless Cable TV to homes
Satellite		downstream: 400 Kbps; upstream: 128Kbps
See also: Electro-Magnetic Spectrum
WAN
(Note: Frame Relay and ATM are higher level-2 protocols/services which can run over T-1, T-3, SONET or other transport networks.
T-1		1.544 Mbps	Point to Piont private net
T-3		45 Mbps	Point to Point private net
SONET		53Mbps - 13Gbs (OC-1 - OC-256)	shared fiber optic backbone transport technology.
Frame Relay		56Kbps - 45Mbps	shared access network service.
ATM		56Kbps - 622Mbps	high speed switching service used by telcos and large organizations. Speeds will increast over time.
WDM		640Gbs	A transport technology that uses multiple lasers and transmits several wavelengths of light (lambdas) simultaneously over a single optical fiber.
DWDM		1Tbs
SRSC		6Tbs

Converters/adapters:
You can get adapters or converter interface cables for:

Serial to USB
DVI to/from HDMI

USB to firewire:

One web site says it can't be done.
USBfirewire.com/uadapters.html  has two
one for NTSC (US video format) and one for PAL (Japanese format) $119
So I assume they are designed for video only and don't work for a usb hard drive.

Pixela DV to USB 2.0 Cable $120
bundled with ImageMixer 2.0 Software
   at pixela-1.com

You can get PCMCIA cards and PC cards to add some interfaces.

Glossary
1XEv 1x Evolution - Data Only 3G Wireless, which is sometimes called Phase 1+, provides 2 Mbps for data only. 1XRTT Phase 1 CDMA2000 3G Wireless technology. named for RTT Programmes Limited. 3G Third Generation Wireless supporting high speed data 3XRTT Phase 2 with 3x the rate of Phase 1 802.11 - Wireless Ethernet ADC Apple Display Connector ADSL Asymmetric DSL AGP Accelerated Graphics Port - A high-speed graphics port from Intel that provides a direct connection between the display adapter and memory. AGP 2x is 528 Mbytes/sec. AGP 4x is 1 Gbytes/sec. AGP 8x is 2 Gbytes/sec. ARDIS Wireless Data Network (now Motient) ATA AT Attachment - Official name of IDE interface to disk drives ATA-2 (Fast ATA) EIDE Interface also supports ATAPI. ATA-4 Ultra ATA (33 MBytes/s) also called ATA-33 ATA/100 UltraATA/100 ATA at 100 MBytes/s ATAPI ATA Packet Interface - Spec. for IDE CD-ROMs ATI ATI Technologies - Mfg. of graphics chips and display adapters ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode CATV Community Antenna TV (Original name for Cable TV) CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data CD-RW CD-Rewriteable Speeds: write, rewrite, read e.g. 8x4x32 = 1.2 MB/s write, 600KB/s rewrite, 4.8MB/s read CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory 650MB capacity 1x - 150 KBytes/sec 40x - 6 MBytes/sec. Access times 80 - 120ms CDMA Code Division Multiple Access - A spread spectrum technology used in radio transmission such as mobil phones. CDMA2000 A 3G wireless technology that increases data transmission rates. It goes by several names: IS-2000, MC-1X, IMT-CDMA MultiCarrier 1X & 1XRTT CIF - Common Interchange Format - Video Conferencing Resolution CMTS - Cable modem termination system CPU - Central Processing Unit e.g. Pentium, PowerPC DataTAC Motorola technology used in ARDIS wireless network DBS - direct broadcast satellite DCE Data Communications Equipment DDR Double Data Rate - Video DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module - sockets used for SDRAM DLC - Digital loop Carrier DMA Direct Memory Access - Specialized circuitry or a dedicated microprocessor that transfers data from memory to memory without using the CPU DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification. DRAM Dynamic RAM. Must be refreshed constantly, but are smaller and require less power than Static RAM. DSL Digital Subscriber Line DSLAM - Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (one of the methods used in wireless ethernet (802.11). Also used in CDMA transmision. DV Digital Video DVI Digital Visual Interface. Common for LCD displays. DVI-D Digital only DVI-I Digital and Analog DVC Digital Video Camera/Casette DWDM Dense WDM ECP Enhanced Capabilities Port - Mode for EPP designed for printers. It uses DMA channels, which reduces CPU overhead EDO - Extended Data Out - 72 pin memory chip 40MHz EIDE Enhanced IDE - Most PCs have 2 EIDE sockets for connecting dirves via a 40 pin ribbon cable. EISA Extended ISA Bus (Extends ISA from 16 to 32 bits) (most Pentium PC's have both EISA or ISA and PCI bus EPP Enhanced Parallel Port - Increases speed. Instead of just data, it can send addresses, allowing individual components in a multifunction device (printer, scanner, fax, etc.) to be addressed independently. IEEE 1284 also defines the required cable type that increases distance to 32 feet. eSATA - External Serial Advanced Technology EVGA - Enhanced video graphics array. PC Video Display standard 1024x768 FHSS Frequency hopping spread spectrum (one of the methods used in wireless ethernet (802.11) FPM Fast Page Mode - 72 pin Memory chips 25MHz Gbps - Giga bits per second (Trillion) GPRS General Packet Radio Service GSM Global System for Mobile Communications HFC - hybrid fiber/coax HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface Home RF - Proxim Competitor to 801.11 for PAN Based on cordless phone signaling. More tollerant to noise form Microwaves and Cordless phones. IDE Integrated Drive Electronics - Hardware interface for Hard Disks. More popular than SCSI now. i.Link - Sony's name for the IEEE 1394 FireWire ISA Industry Standard Architecture (Originally AT Bus) (most Pentium PC's had both EISA or ISA and PCI slots, but after 2000 most have only PCI slots. Early PC's had 8-bit ISA slots, most are 16-bit now. ISM Band Industrial, Scientific and Medical band un-licensed bands e.g. 900MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.8GHz IrDA Infrared Data Association Kbps - Thousand bits per second LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution System (28GHz) Mbps - Mega bits per second (Million) MCDN MicroCellular Data Network (Ricochet) MMDS Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service or Microwave Multipoint Distribution Service NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification (API for NIC's) NIC Network Interface Card NTSC National Television Standards Committee (composite video Interface) OC-1 Optical Carrier level-1 - 51.84Mbps OC-3 Optical Carrier level-3 - 155Mbps OC-12 Optical Carrier level-231 - 622Mbps OC-48 Optical Carrier level-48 - 2.5Gbs OC-192 Optical Carrier level-192 - 9.95Gbs OC-256 Optical Carrier level-256 - 13.2Gbs ODI Open Data-Link Interface) A network driver interface from Novell & Apple OTG On the Go,OBJECTive Technology Group. Small connector USB. PAL Phase Alternating Line - TV standard used in Europe, S. Amer. and China PAN personal area network (Wireless LAN. short distances - 100m.) PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Bus 1993 32 - 64 bits, on PC's, Macs and workstations. Cards come in 5.25" and 3.5". PC's come with a combination of 3.5 and 5.25" bays. PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PDA Personal Digital Assistant (e.g. Palm, Handspring, WinCE) QCIF - Quarter Common Interchange Format (H.263) RAM Random Access Memory RAM Wireless Data Network (was BellSouth now Cingular Interactive) RDRAM Rambus DRAM Produced by Rambus, Inc., Speeds to 1.6 GBps RGB Red-Green-Blue Video interface - 4 Coax connectors R,G,B,Sync RIMM Rambus In-line Memory Module SAN Storage Area Network SCSI Small Computer System Interface - Used for connecting disk drives and other peripherals to a computer. Allows 8 or 16 devices to be daisy-chained. Most PCs now use an IDE interface for drives. SDRAM Synchronous DRAM - 168 pin memory chips are fast enough to be synchronized with the CPU's clock, which eliminates wait states. 66-133MHz 133MHz SDRAM has a max. transfer rate of 1.1 Gbps 133MHz DDR SDRAM has a max. of 2.1 Gbps Older (1994) DRAM had transfer rates of 300 Mbps SIMM Single In-line Memory Module used for DRAM SIR Slow Infrared SMS Short Message Service (max 160 byte messages) SONET Synchronous Optical Network S/PDIF Sony/Philips Digital InterFace (Digital Audio) SRAM Static RAM (requires power to hold content. Faster than DRAM) SRSC SilkRoad Refractive Synchronization Communication STS-n Synchronous Transport Signal level-n (see OC-n for speeds) SVGA Super VGA - PC Video Display standard 800x600 S-video Super-video - Recording and transmitting video by keeping luminance (Y) and color information (C) on separate channels Tbps Terra bits per second (Quadrillion) USB Universal Serial Bus USB OTG - USB On The Go - Will allow peripheral and mobile devices like PDAs, cell phones and digital cameras to be attached directly to one another without having to have a PC in between. U160-SCSI Ultra SCSI allowing 160 MBytes/s VOD Video on Demand VGA Video Graphics Array - Refers to both the connector type PC Video Display standard - 640x480 pixels w/ 256 colors. Uses a 9 pins on a 15 pin connector W-CDMA Wideband CDMA WAN Wide Area Networks WAP Wireless Application Protocol WBFH Wide-Band Frequency Hopping WDM Wave Division Multiplexing

Glossary

1XEv 1x Evolution - Data Only 3G Wireless, which is sometimes called
Phase 1+, provides 2 Mbps for data only.
1XRTT Phase 1 CDMA2000 3G Wireless technology.
named for RTT Programmes Limited.
3G Third Generation Wireless supporting high speed data
3XRTT Phase 2 with 3x the rate of Phase 1
802.11 - Wireless Ethernet
ADC Apple Display Connector
ADSL Asymmetric DSL
AGP Accelerated Graphics Port - A high-speed graphics port from Intel that
provides a direct connection between the display adapter and memory.
AGP 2x is 528 Mbytes/sec. AGP 4x is 1 Gbytes/sec. AGP 8x is 2 Gbytes/sec.
ARDIS Wireless Data Network (now Motient)
ATA AT Attachment - Official name of IDE interface to disk drives
ATA-2 (Fast ATA) EIDE Interface also supports ATAPI.
ATA-4 Ultra ATA (33 MBytes/s) also called ATA-33
ATA/100 UltraATA/100 ATA at 100 MBytes/s
ATAPI ATA Packet Interface - Spec. for IDE CD-ROMs
ATI ATI Technologies - Mfg. of graphics chips and display adapters
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
CATV Community Antenna TV (Original name for Cable TV)
CDPD Cellular Digital Packet Data
CD-RW CD-Rewriteable
Speeds: write, rewrite, read
e.g. 8x4x32 = 1.2 MB/s write, 600KB/s rewrite, 4.8MB/s read
CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory 650MB capacity
1x - 150 KBytes/sec 40x - 6 MBytes/sec. Access times 80 - 120ms
CDMA Code Division Multiple Access - A spread spectrum technology used
in radio transmission such as mobil phones.
CDMA2000 A 3G wireless technology that increases data transmission rates.
It goes by several names: IS-2000, MC-1X, IMT-CDMA MultiCarrier 1X & 1XRTT
CIF - Common Interchange Format - Video Conferencing Resolution
CMTS - Cable modem termination system
CPU - Central Processing Unit e.g. Pentium, PowerPC
DataTAC Motorola technology used in ARDIS wireless network
DBS - direct broadcast satellite
DCE Data Communications Equipment
DDR Double Data Rate - Video
DIMM Dual In-line Memory Module - sockets used for SDRAM
DLC - Digital loop Carrier
DMA Direct Memory Access - Specialized circuitry or a dedicated
microprocessor that transfers data from memory to memory without using the CPU
DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification.
DRAM Dynamic RAM. Must be refreshed constantly, but are smaller
and require less power than Static RAM.
DSL Digital Subscriber Line
DSLAM - Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor
DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (one of the methods used in
wireless ethernet (802.11). Also used in CDMA transmision.
DV Digital Video
DVI Digital Visual Interface. Common for LCD displays.
DVI-D Digital only
DVI-I Digital and Analog
DVC Digital Video Camera/Casette
DWDM Dense WDM
ECP Enhanced Capabilities Port - Mode for EPP designed for printers.
It uses DMA channels, which reduces CPU overhead
EDO - Extended Data Out - 72 pin memory chip 40MHz
EIDE Enhanced IDE - Most PCs have 2 EIDE sockets for connecting
dirves via a 40 pin ribbon cable.
EISA Extended ISA Bus (Extends ISA from 16 to 32 bits)
(most Pentium PC's have both EISA or ISA and PCI bus
EPP Enhanced Parallel Port - Increases speed. Instead of just data,
it can send addresses, allowing individual components in a multifunction device
(printer, scanner, fax, etc.) to be addressed independently.
IEEE 1284 also defines the required cable type that increases distance to 32 feet.
eSATA - External Serial Advanced Technology
EVGA - Enhanced video graphics array. PC Video Display standard 1024x768
FHSS Frequency hopping spread spectrum (one of the methods used in
wireless ethernet (802.11)
FPM Fast Page Mode - 72 pin Memory chips 25MHz
Gbps - Giga bits per second (Trillion)
GPRS General Packet Radio Service
GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
HFC - hybrid fiber/coax
HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface
Home RF - Proxim Competitor to 801.11 for PAN Based on cordless phone
signaling. More tollerant to noise form Microwaves and Cordless phones.
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics - Hardware interface for Hard Disks.
More popular than SCSI now.
i.Link - Sony's name for the IEEE 1394 FireWire
ISA Industry Standard Architecture (Originally AT Bus)
(most Pentium PC's had both EISA or ISA and PCI slots,
but after 2000 most have only PCI slots.
Early PC's had 8-bit ISA slots, most are 16-bit now.
ISM Band Industrial, Scientific and Medical band
un-licensed bands e.g. 900MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.8GHz
IrDA Infrared Data Association
Kbps - Thousand bits per second
LMDS Local Multipoint Distribution System (28GHz)
Mbps - Mega bits per second (Million)
MCDN MicroCellular Data Network (Ricochet)
MMDS Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
or Microwave Multipoint Distribution Service
NDIS Network Driver Interface Specification (API for NIC's)
NIC Network Interface Card
NTSC National Television Standards Committee (composite video Interface)
OC-1 Optical Carrier level-1 - 51.84Mbps
OC-3 Optical Carrier level-3 - 155Mbps
OC-12 Optical Carrier level-231 - 622Mbps
OC-48 Optical Carrier level-48 - 2.5Gbs
OC-192 Optical Carrier level-192 - 9.95Gbs
OC-256 Optical Carrier level-256 - 13.2Gbs
ODI Open Data-Link Interface) A network driver interface from Novell & Apple
OTG On the Go,OBJECTive Technology Group. Small connector USB.
PAL Phase Alternating Line - TV standard used in Europe, S. Amer. and China
PAN personal area network (Wireless LAN. short distances - 100m.)
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect Bus 1993 32 - 64 bits,
on PC's, Macs and workstations. Cards come in 5.25" and 3.5".
PC's come with a combination of 3.5 and 5.25" bays.
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PDA Personal Digital Assistant (e.g. Palm, Handspring, WinCE)
QCIF - Quarter Common Interchange Format (H.263)
RAM Random Access Memory
RAM Wireless Data Network (was BellSouth now Cingular Interactive)
RDRAM Rambus DRAM Produced by Rambus, Inc., Speeds to 1.6 GBps
RGB Red-Green-Blue Video interface - 4 Coax connectors R,G,B,Sync
RIMM Rambus In-line Memory Module
SAN Storage Area Network
SCSI Small Computer System Interface - Used for connecting disk drives and
other peripherals to a computer. Allows 8 or 16 devices to be daisy-chained.
Most PCs now use an IDE interface for drives.
SDRAM Synchronous DRAM - 168 pin memory chips are fast enough to be
synchronized with the CPU's clock, which eliminates wait states.
66-133MHz
133MHz SDRAM has a max. transfer rate of 1.1 Gbps
133MHz DDR SDRAM has a max. of 2.1 Gbps
Older (1994) DRAM had transfer rates of 300 Mbps
SIMM Single In-line Memory Module used for DRAM
SIR Slow Infrared
SMS Short Message Service (max 160 byte messages)
SONET Synchronous Optical Network
S/PDIF Sony/Philips Digital InterFace (Digital Audio)
SRAM Static RAM (requires power to hold content. Faster than DRAM)
SRSC SilkRoad Refractive Synchronization Communication
STS-n Synchronous Transport Signal level-n (see OC-n for speeds)
SVGA Super VGA - PC Video Display standard 800x600
S-video Super-video - Recording and transmitting video by keeping
luminance (Y) and color information (C) on separate channels
Tbps Terra bits per second (Quadrillion)
USB Universal Serial Bus
USB OTG - USB On The Go - Will allow peripheral and mobile devices
like PDAs, cell phones and digital cameras to be attached directly
to one another without having to have a PC in between.
U160-SCSI Ultra SCSI allowing 160 MBytes/s
VOD Video on Demand
VGA Video Graphics Array - Refers to both the connector type PC Video Display standard - 640x480 pixels w/
256 colors. Uses a 9 pins on a 15 pin connector
W-CDMA Wideband CDMA
WAN Wide Area Networks
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WBFH Wide-Band Frequency Hopping
WDM Wave Division Multiplexing