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twisted pair. Cable consisting of two copper strands twisted
around each other. The twisting provides protection against
electromagnetic interference.
-----U-----
UTP. Unshielded twisted pair cable.
-----V-----
VJ. Van Jacobson. Abbreviation for a compression standard
documented in RFC 1144.
-----W-----
WAN. Wide Area Network. Private network facilities, usually
offered by public telephone companies but increasingly avail-
able from alternative access providers (sometimes called Com-
petitive Access Providers, or CAPs), that link business network
nodes.
WWW. World Wide Web.
