... particular piece of information.Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA.www.sybex.com626 Glossary of Networking Terms shielded twisted-pair A type of cabling that includes pairs of copper con-ductors, ... back off and don’t transmit again until some random period of time has passed.Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA.www.sybex.com622 Glossary of Networking Terms Redundant Array of Independent ... to a type of server that runs database server software.datagram A unit of data smaller than a packet.Copyright © 2000 SYBEX Inc., Alameda, CA.www.sybex.com Glossary of Networking Terms 619power...