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What Is A Heterogeneous Network

What Is A Heterogeneous Network?

Difficulty: Medium

A heterogeneous network is a network made up of nodes with a significantly different network architecture, protocols, and operating systems...

What Is A Homogeneous Network

What Is A Homogeneous Network?

Difficulty: Medium

A homogeneous network is a network made up of nodes with the same network architecture, protocols, and operating systems...

What Is A Network Bridge

What Is A Network Bridge?

Difficulty: Medium

A brouter, also known as a bridging router, is a piece of networking hardware that works as both a bridge and a router by routing data...

What Is A Brouter

What Is A Brouter?

Difficulty: Medium

A brouter, also known as a bridging router, is a piece of networking hardware that works as both a bridge and a router by routing data...

What Is Remote Access

What Is Remote Access?

Difficulty: Easy

Remote access is the ability to access a computer or network from another geographical location through the use of a separate computer...

What Is An Analogue Signal

What Is An Analogue Signal?

Difficulty: Medium

An analogue signal consists of a continuous range of values representing one quantity that is analogous to another quantity...

What Is QUIC

What Is QUIC?

Difficulty: Advanced

QUIC stands for Quick UDP Internet Connections and it is a transport-layer protocol that was designed by Google on 12th October 2012...

What Is PTP

What Is PTP?

Difficulty: Advanced

PTP stands for Precision Time Protocol and it is an application-layer protocol used to synchronise clocks across computer networks...

What Is DNSSEC

What Is DNSSEC?

Difficulty: Advanced

DNSSEC stands for Domain Name Security Extensions and it is a protocol that extends DNS by adding a layer of security to the DNS lookup...

What Is Telecommunications

What Is Telecommunications?

Difficulty: Easy

Telecommunications, also known as telecom, is a wide term used to describe the electronic transmission of signals over long distances...

What Is MGCP

What Is MGCP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Stands for Media Gateway Control Protocol, MGCP is a protocol used for signalling and call control communications in VoIP telecommunication...

What Is A Fibre Optic Cable

What Is A Fibre Optic Cable?

Difficulty: Medium

A fibre-optic cable, also known as an optical-fibre cable, is a network cable that is made up of one or more thin strands of glass fibres...

What Is Anycasting

What Is Anycasting?

Difficulty: Medium

Anycasting is a network addressing and routing method where a group of nodes share the same IP addresses and messages can be sent to...

What Is Broadcasting

What Is Broadcasting?

Difficulty: Medium

Broadcasting refers to the process of sending a message to all hosts on a network without knowing their unique IP addresses...

What Is uTorrent

What Is uTorrent?

Difficulty: Medium

µTorrent, also spelt as uTorrent, is a free BitTorrent client that was developed by Rainberry, Inc with over 150 million users...

What Is Podcast

What Is A Podcast?

Difficulty: Medium

A podcast, also known as an audioblog, or a pod, is a series of prerecorded digital audio files that can be downloaded from the internet...

What Is An FQDN

What Is An FQDN?

Difficulty: Medium

Also known as an absolute domain name, an FQDN stands for a Fully Qualified Domain Name and it describes a full alphanumeric domain...

What Is PuTTy

What Is PuTTy?

Difficulty: Medium

PuTTY is a free terminal emulator software that can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, and rlogin protocols with an xterm terminal...

What Is Traceroute

What Is Traceroute?

Difficulty: Medium

Traceroute, also known as tracert, is a command-line utility used to display the path the data packet took from its source to destination...

What Is Synchronisation

What Is Synchronisation?

Difficulty: Easy

Synchronisation is the process of updating information between two or more devices so that it remains identical on every device...

What Is RTP

What Is RTP?

Difficulty: Medium

Real-time transport protocol (RTP) is a protocol used for delivering live media over the internet, such as audio, video playing...

What Is NDP

What Is NDP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Neighbour Discovery Protocol, NDP is a protocol used to map an IP address to a fixed 48-bit MAC address in a LAN. It...

What Is LDAP

What Is LDAP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP is a protocol used for accessing directory information over the internet....

What Is OSPF

What Is OSPF?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Open Shortest Path First, OSPF is a routing protocol used to determine the shortest and most efficient path from one...

What Is IRC

What Is IRC?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for Internet Relay Chat, IRC is an application-layer protocol used for real-time chatting and instant messaging with user...

What Is IGMP

What Is IGMP?

Difficulty: Advanced

Short for Internet Group Management Protocol, IGMP is a network-layer protocol that is used to establish multicast group member...

What Is The Address Resolution Protocol

What Is The Address Resolution Protocol?

Difficulty: Advanced

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...

What Is A Timeout

What Is A Timeout?

Difficulty: Easy

A timeout, also spelt as time-out, occurs when a user makes a request that takes longer than a server or network was preparing...

What Is A DNS Resolver

What Is A DNS Resolver?

Difficulty: Advanced

A DNS resolver is a server that handles requests and translates domain names to their corresponding IP addresses. For example...

What Is Metcalfe's Law

What Is Metcalfe's Law?

Difficulty: Medium

Metcalfe’s law is a concept in computer networks that was created by Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet and 3Com to repr...