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Seminar - An Overview of Communications Technologies

Module 6 - Internet, Intranet, Extranet, e-Commerce and Web Services                                      Slide 70 of 70 _________________                                                                                  __________

Glossary

Canarie - A Canadian network for the Advancement of Research, Industry, and Education, initiative was first proposed in 1988 to link Canadian universities and research organizations.

Ca*Net2 - A Canadian network connecting Canadian Internet nodes to the U.S. NAPs at 45 M bps.

Ca*Net3 - Enhancement to Ca*Net2 network. Used optical fibers in the links. The regional POPs were connected at OC-48. 

Ca*Net4 - Enhancement to Ca*Net3 network. The Ca*Net4 links operate at OC-192 (10 G bps) and the network has total capacity of between 4 and 8 times of Ca*net3.

digital currency - is an electronic money payment method that emulates the real-life exchange of goods and services for equivalent physical currencies.

Extranet - is a network that links the Intranets of business partners using the Internet technology.

eXML - Extension of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

e-Catalog - Presentation of information about products. Electronic catalogs can include multimedia such as voice, text, data, images and video clips

FTP - File Transfer Protocol is an interactive file transfer capability that is often used on TCP/IP networks.

IPv4 - An IETF defined standard for the IP protocol including 32 bits for the address field, limiting to 4 billion addresses not enough for the growing Web.

IPv6 - An IETF standard for the IP protocol increasing the address field from 32 bits to 128 bits allowing 3x10 raised to the power of 38, enough addresses to out last for many centuries to come. 

Intranet - A corporate LAN or WAN that uses Internet technologies behind the company's firewall.

Internet - A self-regulated network connecting millions of web-sites around the globe using the Internet technology.

Internet2 - A U.S. initiative supporting the creation of a high speed network interconnecting R&D facilities across the country.

ISP - Internet Service Provider is a company that provides end-users access to the Internet network.

IRC - Internet Relay Chat. a multi-user chat system on the Internet. 

MUDs - Multi-User Dungeons, interactive real-time, text-based games accessible to anyone on the Internet.

NAPs - Network Access Point relays traffic from major ISPs to other Internet back-bones.

NGI - Next-Generation Internet is a U.S. initiative to connect major high-speed networks.

POPs - Locations where an ISP offers access to its network. A gigaPOP is an access point for fast Internet backbone connections, such as for Internet2 and Ca*Net4.

SET - Secure Electronic Transaction, a set of protocols developed by Visa, MasterCard, Netscape, and Microsoft to provide secure Web credit card transactions for both merchants and consumers.

SOAP - A standard communications protocol for Web Services. SOAP provides a simple and consistent mechanism that allows one application to send XML messages to another application.

SSL - Secure Socket Layer, a communications protocol used by Web browsers and servers for secure communications.

UDDI -  Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, is a standard mechanism to register and discover Web Services.

VOIP - Transmitting voice over the Internet network.

Web Services - are applications which are developed, hosted and discovered by consumers by using Web Services tools (eXML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI). 

WSDL - a standard mechanism to describe a Web Service. A WSDL document describes what functionalities a Web Service offers, how it communicates, and where it is accessible.