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Companies like Sun Microsystems and Apollo Computer had gained momentum showing the efficiency of distributed clusters of smaller workstations connected to a local area network. Internetworking companies, most notably Cisco Systems, entered the market with local and wide-area networking products using off-the-shelf components and custom software.
An internetwork is the connection of multiple different types of computer networks to form a single computer network using higher-layer network protocols and connecting them together using routers. The Internet is the largest example of internetwork. It is a global system of interconnected governmental, academic, corporate, public, and private ...
Node (networking) In telecommunications networks, a node ( Latin: nodus, ‘knot’) is either a redistribution point or a communication endpoint. A physical network node is an electronic device that is attached to a network, and is capable of creating, receiving, or transmitting information over a communication channel. [1] In data ...
Systems Network Architecture [1] ( SNA) is IBM 's proprietary networking architecture, created in 1974. [2] It is a complete protocol stack for interconnecting computers and their resources. SNA describes formats and protocols but, in itself, is not a piece of software. The implementation of SNA takes the form of various communications packages ...
In computing, a directory service or name service maps the names of network resources to their respective network addresses.It is a shared information infrastructure for locating, managing, administering and organizing everyday items and network resources, which can include volumes, folders, files, printers, users, groups, devices, telephone numbers and other objects.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Network management. Network management is the discipline in computing dealing with operating, managing and monitoring voice and data networks. Network management is often defined as consisting of five areas, using the acronym FCAPS : Fault Management. Configuration Management. Accounting (Administration)
Connection-oriented communication. Connectionless communication. Consolidated Tape Association. Consolidation ratio. Content centric networking. Content delivery network. Content delivery network interconnection. Content delivery platform. Content-addressable memory.
The Network Computing System ( NCS) was an implementation of the Network Computing Architecture (NCA). It was created at Apollo Computer in the 1980s. It comprised a set of tools for implementing distributed software applications, or distributed computing. [1] The three principal components of NCS were a runtime environment for remote procedure ...