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call failure rate
24 Jul 2001
WORD - The call failure rate (CFR) is the percentage of calls to an ISP or any network provider that fail to get through. The CFR is commonly used as a statistical measure in assessing Internet service providers. Companies can ...
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Jini
10 Apr 2003
WORD - Jini (pronounced DJEE-nee like the Arabic word for "magician") is a network architecture concept that Sun Microsystems calls "spontaneous networking." Using Jini, users will be able to plug printers, storage devices, ...
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jam
06 Feb 2004
WORD - In an Ethernet network, a jam is a signal from one device to all other devices that a collision has occurred. Specifically, the device was trying to send a frame while another device was also trying to put a frame on the ...
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weighted fair queueing
20 Mar 2005
WORD - Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) is a method of automatically smoothing out the flow of data in packet-switched communication networks by sorting packets to minimize the average latency and prevent exaggerated discrepancies ...
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Network Job Entry
06 May 2004
WORD - Network Job Entry (NJE) is an application designed for the transfer of commands, messages, programs, and jobs among different computing systems in a network. In effect, NJE facilitates the deployment of a "network of ...
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propagation delay
27 Nov 2003
WORD - 1) Propagation delay, symbolized tpd, is the time required
for a digital signal to travel from the input(s) of a logic gate to the output. It is measured in microseconds (µs), nanoseconds (ns), or picoseconds (ps), ...
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TCP/IP offload engine
04 Nov 2003
WORD - The TCP/IP offload engine (TOE for short) is a technology that is gaining popularity in high-speed Ethernet systems for the purpose of optimizing throughput. TOE
components are incorporated into one of the printed circuit ...
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CRC-4
26 Mar 2003
WORD - CRC-4 (Cyclic Redundancy Check 4) is a form of cyclic redundancy checking (a method of checking
for errors in transmitted data) that is used on E-1 trunk lines. CRC-4 is structured in a multiframe consisting of 16 frames ...
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N1
10 Apr 2003
WORD - N1 is Sun Microsystems' strategy for making a network environment as easy to manage as a single machine. The N1 project will use a virtualization technology developed by Pirus Networks, a company since acquired by Sun. By ...
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loopback test
13 Apr 2002
WORD - A loopback test is a test in which a signal in sent from a communications device and returned (looped back) to it as a way to determine whether the device is working right or as a way to pin down a failing node in a network. ...
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