| DECnet |
| DECnet is a proprietary suite of network protocols created by Digital Equipment Corporation, originally released in 1975 in order to connect two PDP-11 minicomputers. It evolved into one of the first peer-to-peer network architectures, thus making DEC into a networking powerhouse in the 1980s. |
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| Client-server |
| Client/Server is a network application architecture which separates the client (usually the graphical user interface) from the server. Each instance of the client software connects to a server or application server. |
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| HIPERLAN |
| HIPERLAN is a WLAN standard. It is a European alternative for the IEEE 802.11 standards (the IEEE is an American organization). It is defined by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In ETSI the standards are defined by the BRAN project (Broadband Radio Access Networks). The HIPERLAN standard family has four different versions. |
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| IEEE 802.17 |
| Resilient Packet Ring, or RPR as it is commonly know, is the IEEE 802.17 standard designed for the optimized transport of data traffic over fiber rings. Its design is to provide the resilience found in SONET/SDH networks (50ms protection) but instead of setting up circuit oriented connections, providing a packet based transmission. This is to increase the efficiency of Ethernet and IP services. |
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| WiMAX |
| IEEE 802.16 is working group number 16 of IEEE 802, specialising in point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access. It also is known as WiMAX, an acronym that stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access. |
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| IEEE 802.6 |
| IEEE 802.6 is a standard governed by the ANSI for Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). It is an improvement of an older standard (also created by ANSI) which used the Fiber distributed data interface (FDDI) network structure. |
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| IEEE 802.3 |
| IEEE 802.3 is the IEEE standard defining the physical layer and transport layer of (a variant of) Ethernet. The maximum segment length is 500m and the maximum total length is 2.5km. The maximum number of hosts is 1024. |
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| Logical Link Control (LLC) |
| Logical Link Control (LLC) is the upper portion of the data link layer of a local area network, as defined in IEEE 802.2. The LLC sublayer presents a uniform interface to the user of the data link service, usually the network layer. Beneath the LLC sublayer is the Media Access Control (MAC) sublayer. |
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| IEEE 802.1 |
| IEEE 802.1 is a working group of the IEEE. It is concerned with
* 802 LAN/MAN architecture
* internetworking among 802 LANs, MANs and other wide area networks,
* 802 Link Security,
* 802 overall network management, and
* protocol layers above the MAC & LLC layers.
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| Systems Network Architecture |
| Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is IBM's proprietary networking architecture created in 1974. It is a complete protocol stack for interconnecting computers and their resources. SNA is still used intensively in banks and other financial transaction networks. |
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