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Caching service provider (CSP)
Caching Service Provider, also known as CSP, is a company that maintains caching servers that speed the transfer of information across the Internet’s infrastructure and offers managed access to these servers for a fee.
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CryptoAPI
CryptoAPI is a core component of the latest versions of Microsoft Windows that provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for cryptographic security services that provide secure channels and code signing for communication between applications.
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Connection Point Services (CPS)
Explore the functionalities and historical significance of Connection Point Services (CPS) in Microsoft RAS, and discover other meanings of the acronym CPS in networking.
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Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
Common Object Request Broker Architecture, also known as CORBA, is a component architecture developed by the Object Management Group and its member companies that specify technologies for creating, distributing, and managing component programming objects over a network.
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Time to Live (TTL)
Time to live, best known as TTL or Hop Limit, is a mechanism that limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network. TTL may be implemented as a counter or timestamp attached to or embedded in the data.
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Caching Array Routing Protocol (CARP)
Caching Array Routing Protocol, also known as CARP, is a protocol developed by Microsoft and implemented in Microsoft Proxy Server that allows multiple proxy servers to be arrayed as a single logical cache for distributed content caching.
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NetWare Protocols
NetWare protocols are the group of protocols developed for and specific to the Novell NetWare network operating system (NOS); popularized in NetWare versions 2 and 3. Some of the networking architecture of NetWare protocols evolved from the Xerox Network Systems (XNS) created in the late 1970s.
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Novell NetWare: The Pioneering Network Operating System of the 1980s
NetWare was a network operating system from Novell that wass widely used in local area networks (LANs). NetWare was created by Novell in the early 1980s.
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Windows 98
Windows 98 was Microsoft’s upgrade for users of Windows 95 and earlier versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. With the code name Memphis, Windows 98 was released on June 25, 1998. Like its predecessor W95, Windows 98 was a hybrid 16-bit and 32-bit product with the boot stage based on MS-DOS. Windows 98 new features…
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Navigating Switched Virtual Circuits: The SVC Guide
Switched Virtual Circuit, also known as SVC, is a form of telecommunications service that provides a path between two nodes in a packet-switched network.
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Latency
In this article we delve deeper into what latency is, its implications, its primary causes, and potential solutions.
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Packet Switching Explained: How the Internet Moves Data (And Why It Works So Well)
What makes the Internet scalable, resilient, and efficient? Packet switching is the answer. In this deep technical guide, we break down how packets move, how networks share bandwidth, and why this model replaced circuit switching in data networks.