DNS Arms

When you use the Web or send an e-mail message, you use a domain name to do it. For example, the URL “http://www.megrisoft.com” contains the domain name megrisoft.com. So does the e-mail address “info@megrisoft.com.” Human-readable names like “megrihost.com” are easy for people to remember, but they don’t do machines any good.

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Voice Over IP

IP Telephony also called Internet telephony, is the technology that makes it possible to have a telephone conversation where the signal is carried over the Internet or a dedicated network in Internet Protocol (I P) packets, instead of over dedicated voice transmission lines. This allows the elimination of circuit switching and the associated waste of […]

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Abilene Network

Abilene Network is the U.S. high-performance backbone network created by Internet2. Over 220 member institutions participate in Abilene, mostly universities with some corporate and affiliate institutions, in all of the US states as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. When established in 1999, the Abilene network backbone had a capacity of 2.5 […]

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