Short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP is a protocol used for accessing directory information over the internet....
Short for Open Shortest Path First, OSPF is a routing protocol used to determine the shortest and most efficient path from one...
Short for Internet Relay Chat, IRC is an application-layer protocol used for real-time chatting and instant messaging with user...
Short for Internet Group Management Protocol, IGMP is a network-layer protocol that is used to establish multicast group member...
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), is a protocol used to map an IP address to a fixed MAC address in a LAN. ARP works by tr...
A timeout, also spelt as time-out, occurs when a user makes a request that takes longer than a server or network was preparing...
A DNS resolver is a server that handles requests and translates domain names to their corresponding IP addresses. For example...
Metcalfe’s law is a concept in computer networks that was created by Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and 3Com to repr...
The Bootstrap Protocol, often abbreviated to BOOTP is an IP protocol that is used to automatically provide a host with an IP ad...
Host priority is the prioritisation of different hosts. It is commonly used in DNS to specify where traffic would be directed if...
Short for an electronic book, an ebook, sometimes spelt e-book or eBook, is an electronic version of a printed book that can be...
Unicasting is the sending of data across a network to a single recipient or host on a network. Unlike, broadcasting or multicasting...
Multicasting is the sending of data across a network to multiple recipients or hosts at the same time across a LAN or WAN. It c...
A broadcast address is a preassigned IP address that is used for sending messages to each host in a network without the need to...
The loopback address, also known as the localhost address, is the reserved IP address that sends and routes data packets to its...
Token Ring is an earlier technology used in LAN where nodes are arranged in a ring or star topology and data is sent in one direction...
Short for the Internet Engineering Task Force, the IETF is a non-profit organisation responsible for the development of internet...
Short for Attached Resource Computer Network, ARCNET is one of the oldest LAN technologies that was introduced by Datapoint Corp...
Making money online is not that difficult with services, such as ecommerce, advertising, affiliate marketing, selling of digital...
Short for Category 8, Cat 8 is the latest and fastest IEEE copper Ethernet cable standard that supports data transmission speed...
Short for Category 7 Augmented, Cat 7a is an enhanced version of Cat 7 that supports data transmission speeds of up to 40 Gb/s,...
Short for Category 7, Cat 7 is a type of Ethernet cable that supports data transmission speeds of up to 10 Gb/s, frequency speed...
GoDaddy, originally called Jomax Technologies, is a domain registrar that provides domain name registration services, web hosting...
Namecheap is a domain registrar that provides domain name registration services, web hosting, SSL certificates, email services...
A hybrid topology is the most complex type of network topology. It is a combination of two or more different topologies. For ex...
A point-to-point topology is the simplest type of network topology where two nodes are directly connected to each other. It is...
A tree topology, also known as a star bus topology is a type of network topology that combines the features of star and bus topologies...
A mesh topology, also known as a mesh network, is a type of network topology where each node connects to every other node and c...
A ring topology, also known as a ring network, is a type of network topology where every network device connects to exactly two...
A bus topology, also known as a line topology, is an older type of network topology where all nodes of the network are directly...
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