A heterogeneous network is a network made up of nodes with a significantly different network architecture, protocols, and operating systems...
A homogeneous network is a network made up of nodes with the same network architecture, protocols, and operating systems...
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...
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...
Remote access is the ability to access a computer or network from another geographical location through the use of a separate computer...
An analogue signal consists of a continuous range of values representing one quantity that is analogous to another quantity...
QUIC stands for Quick UDP Internet Connections and it is a transport-layer protocol that was designed by Google on 12th October 2012...
PTP stands for Precision Time Protocol and it is an application-layer protocol used to synchronise clocks across computer networks...
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...
Telecommunications, also known as telecom, is a wide term used to describe the electronic transmission of signals over long distances...
Stands for Media Gateway Control Protocol, MGCP is a protocol used for signalling and call control communications in VoIP telecommunication...
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...
Anycasting is a network addressing and routing method where a group of nodes share the same IP addresses and messages can be sent to...
Broadcasting refers to the process of sending a message to all hosts on a network without knowing their unique IP addresses...
µTorrent, also spelt as uTorrent, is a free BitTorrent client that was developed by Rainberry, Inc with over 150 million users...
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...
Also known as an absolute domain name, an FQDN stands for a Fully Qualified Domain Name and it describes a full alphanumeric domain...
PuTTY is a free terminal emulator software that can act as a client for the SSH, Telnet, and rlogin protocols with an xterm terminal...
Traceroute, also known as tracert, is a command-line utility used to display the path the data packet took from its source to destination...
Synchronisation is the process of updating information between two or more devices so that it remains identical on every device...
Real-time transport protocol (RTP) is a protocol used for delivering live media over the internet, such as audio, video playing...
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...
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...
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