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flow routing
20 Feb 2008
WORD - Flow routing is a network routing technology that takes variations in the flow of data into account to increase routing efficiency. The increased efficiency helps avoid excessive latency and jitter for streaming data, such ...
fiber jumper
10 Jul 2007
WORD - A fiber jumper, sometimes called a fiber patch cord is a length of fiber cabling fitted with LC, SC, MTRJ or ST connectors at each end. The LC, a smaller form factor connector, is most commonly used. Fiber jumpers also ...
patch cord
09 Jul 2007
WORD - A patch cord (sometimes called a patch cable) is a length of cable with connectors on the ends that is used to connect an end device to something else, such as a power source. One of the most common uses is connecting a ...
logical router
08 Nov 2005
WORD - A logical router is a configured partition of a traditional network hardware, or "physical," router. It replicates the hardware's functionality, creating multiple routing domains within a single router. Logical routers ...
hardware load-balancing device
12 Sep 2004
WORD - A hardware load-balancing device (HLD), also known as a layer 4-7 router, is a physical unit that directs computers to individual servers in a network, based on factors such as server processor utilization, the number of ...
core router
28 Jan 2004
WORD - A core router is a router that forwards packets to computer hosts within a network (but not between networks). A core router is sometimes contrasted with an edge router, which routes packets between a self-contained network ...
foreign network
12 Sep 2002
WORD - In the Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP), a foreign network is any network other than the home network to which a mobile device may be connected. Because standard Internet routing mechanisms deliver all traffic to a ...
foreign agent
12 Sep 2002
WORD - In Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP), a foreign agent is a router serving as a mobility agent for a mobile node. As specified in IETF RFC 2002), a foreign agent works in conjunction with another type of mobility agent ...
mrouter
13 Mar 2001
WORD - An mrouter, or multicast router, is a router program that distinguishes between multicast and unicast packets and determines how they should be distributed along the Multicast Internet (sometimes known as the Multicast ...
edge router
22 Nov 2002
WORD - A term used in asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks, an edge router is a device that routes data packets between one or more local area networks (LANs) and an ATM backbone network, whether a campus network or a wide area ...


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