Short for a content delivery network, a CDN is a group of servers distributed in different geographical locations that are desi...
Short for electronic commerce, ecommerce refers to the buying and selling of products electronically on the internet. Ecommerce...
Short for session initiation protocol, SIP is a signalling protocol used to initiate, maintain, and terminate real-time communi...
Short for Internet Control Message Protocol, ICMP is in the network layer of the OSI model and it is used to communicate errors...
In DNS, a zone file, also known as a master file, is a text file that contains information about all the resources for a domain....
Jitter refers to small, irregular time delays in the transferring of data packets from one host to another. Jitter is the diffe...
Ping is a software application that uses a command-line interface to test the reachability of a computer network by sending a s...
A HTTP status code is a three-digit code that identifies the status of a HTTP request on the World Wide Web. For example, the H...
A domain registry is a company that maintains a database of all domain names and associated registrant information. In the hire...
Often abbreviated to a PAN, a personal area network is a small network designed to connect devices, such as desktop computers.....
Short for a second-level domain, an SLD, also known as a 2LD is the custom name that appears before the TLD, usually com, net,....
Short for quality of service, QoS is the prioritisation of network traffic, such as video and audio and it only applies to netw...
A server is a computer that handles requests and delivers data over a network. For example, a web server stores webpages and im...
Short for Internet Protocol Version 6, IPv6, also known as IPng or IP Next Generation is the more recent and advanced version o...
Short for Internet Protocol Version 4, IPv4 is the most common type of IP address. It is the fourth version of an IP address th...
Social networking is the use of dedicated applications to interact with other users online, normally family, friends, relatives...
Broadband, also known as wideband is a telecommunications technology that provides high-speed data transmission through physica...
A host refers to a computer or device that is connected to a network. Hosts are accessible over a network and communicate with...
Short for Request For Comments, an RFC is an official document from the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) which forms the ...
Tunnelling is a technology that enables data to be moved from one network to another. In other words, it enables one network to...
Short for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, DHCP is a network configuration protocol that automatically assigns an IP addres...
A subnetwork, also known as a subnet is a part of a larger network. It is a separately identifiable part of a network, often a LA...
Short for Border Gateway Protocol, BGP is a protocol designed to make the internet function properly by enabling data routing a...
An autonomous system, often abbreviated to an AS is a large network or group of networks that make up the internet. Each autono...
Short for the Socket Secure protocol, SOCKS is a protocol used for transferring data between the source and the server through....
Network congestion is a disruption to the normal flow of traffic to a network, caused by it receiving more traffic than it can....
Cloud computing refers to any hosted service that is delivered over the internet. In other words, it is the use of computing po...
Short for a uniform resource locator, a URL is the address of a webpage or file on the internet. It uniquely identifies the l...
A routing table is a set of rules where routing information is stored and viewed in a table format that acts as a map, where th...
In computing, a hop is known as a router or a gateway that is an intermediary device between two different remote hosts, nodes,...
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