Glossary

**Glossary**

Cloud Computing Is the provision of services, that would previously have been provided locally, by third parties over the internet. This concept is still relatively new, so to some degree the definition is still being argued about.

Drop or Fibre Drop-cable A type of fibre optic cable that has a bundle of fibres and is designed to be blown, pulled or pushed through a duct. This is what will be used to connect school network to the fibre optic cable at the gate. It is likely to run through an underground duct.

IPv6

Latency

Layer 2

Layer 3

Quality of Service

Service Level Agreements (SLA's)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Structured cabling

Web Filters These are designed to block some or all of your users from accessing certain types of content from the internet. There are three main types of filtering and they can either be used on their own or in conjunction with one of the other types. Content Filtering — actually looks at the content of each web page before deciding if it should be blocked or not List Based Filtering — checks each page requested against a database of websites and decides if the page should be allowed for the user requesting it depending on what level of access they are entitled to White List Filtering — checks each page requested against a database of websites that are allowed.