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Tech Term of the Day: Latency refers to the delay that occurs before a data transfer begins when users send data to other networks.

Tech Term of the Day: A firewall is a network security system that protects, monitors and controls incoming and outgoing network traffic. It can block specific networks that are unauthorized or dangerous.

Tech Term of the Day: Ethernet systems physically connect computers to a local area network, typically via a cable.

Tech Term of the Day: Every domain name is translated into numbers as an internet protocol address when users enter it into a browser’s address bar. The DNS is a directory of those numbers.

Tech Term of the Day: Data architecture is the management of all things data-related: how data is collected, transformed, stored, distributed, accessed and consumed.

Tech Term of the Day: The CPU is your computer’s main processor, essentially acting as a control center. This hardware performs basic functions, including running operating systems and applications.

Tech Term of the Day: Bandwidth refers to the amount of data or information that can be transmitted over a connection during a specific period. It is often confused with internet speed, but bandwidth is not about how fast data is sent. It’s about the limit of how much data can be sent.

Tech Term of the Day: An API helps different software components work together so that they appear to operate as a single piece of software. Such interfaces are very common, helping to coordinate numerous elements to make a program or app easy to use.

Tech Term of the Day: The following terms relate to the networks your company uses to transfer and interact with data.

Tech Term of the Day: WYSIWYG stands for “what you see is what you get.” This term is commonly used in relation to website-building tools, which automatically modify HTML5 code every time you add a new piece of content or move around a page element. Leading WYSIWYG editors include WordPress, Wix and Weebly — though platforms that don’t start with “W” are also available.