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- Bluetooth
- A radio standard for wireless personal area networks (PANs). Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices like personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile More…
- Computer Networking
- A system for communication between computers. Networks, and the technologies needed to connect and communicate through and between them, continue to drive computer hardware, software, More…
- Data Center
- A facility used for housing a large amount of electronic equipment, typically computers and communications equipment. As the name implies, a data center is usually maintained by an More…
- firewall
- A device or software that has the basic task of controlling traffic between different zones of trust. Typical zones of trust include the Internet (a zone with no trust) and an internal More…
- Frame Relay
- An efficient data transmission technique used to send digital information quickly and cheaply in a relay of frames to one or many destinations from one or many end-points. Network More…
- Home Phoneline Networking
- A networking technique utilizing existing telephone cabling in homes or offices to connect computers and other peripherals or to build a local area network (LAN). The technology is More…
- Network Attached Storage
- (NAS) A dedicated data storage technology that can be connected directly to a computer network to provide centralized data access and storage to heterogeneous network clients. NAS systems More…
- Power over Ethernet
- (PoE) A system to transmit electrical power, along with data, to remote devices over standard twisted-pair cable in an Ethernet network. This technology is useful for powering IP More…
- Powerline Networking
- One of several ways to connect the computers in your home or office. Powerline networking is based on the concept of "no new wires." The convenience is because you will always have an More…
- Router
- A computer networking device that acts as a junction between two networks to transfer data packets among them. A router is essentially different from a switch that connects devices to More…
- Storage Area Network
- (SAN) A network designed to attach computer storage devices such as disk array controllers and tape libraries to servers. SANs are commonly used in enterprise storage. There are two More…
- Thin Client
- An application program communicating with an application server and relies for most significant elements of its business logic on a separate piece of software, an application server, More…
- Virtual Private Network
- (VPN) A private communications network usually used within a company, or by several different companies or organizations, to communicate over a public network. VPN message traffic is More…
- Wireless Mesh Networking
- (mesh radio, metro mesh) An economical and reliable way to extend next-generation communications and Wi-Fi coverage, while creating a network that essentially takes care of itself. More…
- Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
- (WiMAX) A wireless metropolitan area network (MAN) technology to connect IEEE 802.11(Wi-Fi) hotspots to the Internet and provide a wireless extension to cable and DSL for last mile (last More…
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