dictionary of multimedia and internet applications: a guide for developers and users. francis botto

Print ISBN 0-471-98624-0 Online ISBN 0-470-84178-8

E1 A four-wire digital trunk with a bandwidth of 2.048 Mbps.

EAPROM (Electrically Alterable Programmable Read-Only Memory) An electronic memory device that can be erased electrically.

ECC (Error Correction Code) (See Mode 1 and Mode 2.)

E-commerce (Electronic Commerce) An application of the Internet which sees it used in a point-of-sale (POI) guise. One of the earliest e-commerce Web sites was the Amazon on-line book store. A key concern of companies contemplating e-commerce solutions on the Web, and of users also, is the security of transactions using credit cards and other electronic funds transfer systems such as Switch. Encryption plays an important role in maintaining the privacy of customer details. SET is seen as the internationally agreed standard solution for providing such confidentiality.

(See Cryptography, Encryption and SET.)

Ediris A CD-I multimedia title launched by Philips and Renault in

October 1989. It was a service training program for mechanics and was used by Renault. On show at the Salon Equip’Auto it received Le Trophée d’Or (The Golden Trophy) for being a most innovative product.

(See CD-I.)

EDO (Enhanced Data Out) A type of random access memory (RAM) which offers access times of the order of approximately 10 nanoseconds (ns), or 10 billionths of a second.

(See SDRAM.)

EIGRP (Extended Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) A protocol developed by Cisco for routers.

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