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  2. Timeout (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Network timeout preventing a Web browser from loading a page. In telecommunications and related engineering (including computer networking and programming), the term timeout or time-out has several meanings, including: A network parameter related to an enforced event designed to occur at the conclusion of a predetermined elapsed time.

  3. Application checkpointing - Wikipedia

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    One of the original and now most common means of application checkpointing was a "save state" feature in interactive applications, in which the user of the application could save the state of all variables and other data and either continue working or exit the application and restart the application and restore the saved state at a later time.

  4. Computer network - Wikipedia

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    An internetwork is the connection of multiple different types of computer networks to form a single computer network using higher-layer network protocols and connecting them together using routers. The Internet is the largest example of internetwork. It is a global system of interconnected governmental, academic, corporate, public, and private ...

  5. IT network assurance - Wikipedia

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    IT network assurance quantifies risk from an IT network perspective, based on analysis of network facts. [1] Examples could be identifying configuration errors in network equipment , which may result in loss of connectivity between devices, degradation of performance or network outages.

  6. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    PAN—Personal Area Network; PAP—Password Authentication Protocol; PARC—Palo Alto Research Center; PATA—Parallel ATA; PBS—Portable Batch System; PC—Personal Computer; PCB—Printed Circuit Board; PCB—Process Control Block; PC DOS—Personal Computer Disc Operating System; PCI—Peripheral Component Interconnect; PCIe—PCI Express ...

  7. Error detection and correction - Wikipedia

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    Checksum schemes include parity bits, check digits, and longitudinal redundancy checks. Some checksum schemes, such as the Damm algorithm, the Luhn algorithm, and the Verhoeff algorithm, are specifically designed to detect errors commonly introduced by humans in writing down or remembering identification numbers.

  8. Operations, administration, and management - Wikipedia

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    This commonly applies to telecommunication, computer networks, and computer hardware. In particular, Ethernet operations, administration and maintenance (EOAM) is the protocol for installing, monitoring and troubleshooting Ethernet metropolitan area network (MANs) and Ethernet WANs.

  9. Multi-link trunking - Wikipedia

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    Distributed split multi-link trunking (DSMLT) or Distributed SMLT is a computer networking technology developed at Nortel to enhance the Split Multi-Link Trunking protocol. DSMLT allows the ports in a trunk to span multiple units of a stack of switches or to span multiple cards in a chassis, preventing network outages when one switch in a stack ...