internetworking functions
1Internetworking — involves connecting two or more distinct computer networks or network segments via a common routing technology. The result is called an internetwork (often shortened to internet ).The most notable example of internetworking is the Internet… …
2Optical Internetworking Forum — The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is a non profit, member driven organization founded in 1998. It promotes the development and deployment of interoperable networking solutions and services through the creation of Implementation Agreements… …
3TCP/IP model — See also: Internet Protocol Suite The TCP/IP model (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is a descriptive framework for the Internet Protocol Suite of computer network protocols created in the 1970s by DARPA, an agency of the United… …
4OSI model — 7. Application layer NNTP  · SIP  · SSI  · DNS  · FTP  · Gopher  · …
5Communications protocol — For other senses of this word, see Protocol. A communications protocol is a system of digital message formats and rules for exchanging those messages in or between computing systems and in telecommunications. A protocol may have a formal… …
6History of the Internet — Main article: Internet The history of the Internet starts in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of computers. This began with point to point communication between mainframe computers and terminals, expanded to point to point connections… …
7Internet Layer — The Internet Layer is a group of internetworking methods in the TCP/IP protocol suite which is the foundation of the Internet (RFC 1122). It is the group of methods, protocols, and specifications which are used to transport datagrams (packets)… …
8Advanced Audio Coding — AAC redirects here. For other uses, see AAC (disambiguation). Advanced Audio Codings iTunes standard AAC file icon Filename extension .m4a, .m4b, .m4p, .m4v, .m4r, .3gp, .mp4, .aac Internet media type audio/aac, audio/aacp, au …
9AWK — This article is about the programming language. For other uses, see AWK (disambiguation). AWK Paradigm(s) scripting, procedural, event driven Appeared in 1977 Designed by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan …
10Physical Layer — NOTOC The Physical Layer is the first level in the seven layer OSI model of computer networking. It translates communications requests from the Data Link Layer into hardware specific operations to affect transmission or reception of electronic… …
