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Packet A unit of information transmitted from one device to another on a network. A packet typically contains a … Pass phrase A series of characters used to create a key which is used by Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). (See … PC Card A removable, credit-card-sized memory or I/O device that fits into an expansion slot on a notebook computer or … PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect. A high-performance I/O (input/output) computer bus that allows expansion slots to be spaced closely for … Peer-to-peer network A wireless or wired computer network that has no server or central hub or router. All the networked … PHY he physical, or lowest, layer of the OSI Network Model. In a wireless network, the PHY defines parameters … PHY layer In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the physical layer or layer 1 is the first (lowest) … PSK A mechanism in Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)-Personal that allows the use of manually entered keys or passwords to …