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  • client/server

    Client/server describes the relationship between two computer programs in which one program, the client, makes a service request from another program, the server, which fulfills the request.  Definition

  • Learning Path: Network Infrastructure

    NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE...infrastructure - backbone - network access point (NAP)- vBNS - Internet 2 - MAE - peering - router - switch - bridge - hub - stackable hub - repeater - brouter - aggregator - gateway - point-of-presence (POP) - colocation - C...  Definition

  • IDSL

    IDSL is a system in which digital data is transmitted at 128 Kbps on a regular copper telephone line (twisted pair) from a user to a destination using digital (rather than analog or voice) transmission, bypassing the telephone company's central offic...  Definition

  • Optical Carrier levels (OCx)

    The Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) includes a set of signal rate multiples for transmitting digital signals on optical fiber.  Definition

  • inverse multiplexing over ATM (IMA)

    Inverse multiplexing over ATM (IMA) is a method of optimizing the data transfer rate for individual subscribers in networks that use asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) by dividing the data into multiple concurrent streams that are sent across separate ...  Definition

  • flooding

    In a network, flooding is the forwarding by a router of a packet from any node to every other node attached to the router except the node from which the packet arrived.  Definition

  • IS-IS (Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System protocol)

    One of the most commonly used routing protocols, the Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System protocol (IS-IS) is based on a routing method known as DECnet Phase V routing, in which routers known as intermediate systems exchange data about routing ...  Definition

  • Metcalfe's Law

    Metcalfe's Law is expressed in two general ways: The number of possible cross-connections in a network grow as the square of the number of computers in the network increases.  Definition

  • delay-tolerant network

    A delay-tolerant network is a network designed to operate effectively over extreme distances such as those encountered in space communications or on an interplanetary scale... (Continued)  Definition

  • GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching or Multiprotocol Lambda Switching)

    GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching), also known as Multiprotocol Lambda Switching, is a technology that provides enhancements to Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) to support network switching for time, wavelength, and space switching...  Definition

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