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Internet communication

All the ways used by people to communicate with each other over the Internet, including e-mail, instant messaging (IM), feedback on blogs, contact forms on Web sites, industry forums, chat rooms and social networking sites.

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Internet communication

call deflection

Internet; Internet communication

Call deflection is a feature of voice over IP (VoIP) that automatically redirects a call from the called endpoint to another endpoint (usually a voice mailbox) when the called endpoint is busy. Call ...

6to4

Internet; Internet communication

6to4 is a tunneling mechanism used to transfer IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) packets over an IPv4 infrastructure, typically the IPv4 Internet. The 6to4 mechanism was created to support ...

32-bit IP addressing

Internet; Internet communication

32-bit IP addressing is the IP address scheme used in Internet Protocol 4 (IPv6 uses a 128-bit system). In IPv4, an IP address is a 32-bit number that identifies each sender or receiver of ...

IEEE 802 Wireless Standards

Internet; Internet communication

The IEEE 802 Standard comprises a family of networking standards that cover the physical layer specifications of technologies from Ethernet to wireless

authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA)

Internet; Internet communication

Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) is a term for a framework for intelligently controlling access to computer resources, enforcing policies, auditing usage, and providing the ...

AAA server (authentication, authorization, and accounting)

Internet; Internet communication

An AAA server is a server program that handles user requests for access to computer resources and, for an enterprise, provides authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services. The AAA ...

AAAA resource record

Internet; Internet communication

An AAAA resource record is a record that stores a single IPv6 address. It's called four "a"s because IPv6 128-bit addresses are four times as large as IPv4's 32-bit addresses.

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