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Parent topics
- Internet Protocol [r]: Highly resilient protocol for messages sent across the internet, first by being broken into smaller packets (each with the endpoint address attached), then moving among many mid-points by unpredictable routes, and finally being reassembled into the original message at the endpoint. IP version 4 (IPv4) is from 1980 but lacked enough addresses for the entire world and was superseded by IP version 6 (IPv6) in 1998. [e]
- Locality of networks [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Internet Protocol version 6 [r]: The next-generation Internet Protocol, providing (among other benefits) a vastly increased address space (128bits), which should in turn provide the ability for an end-to-end Internet and allowing new models of communication to be developed. [e]
- Domain Name System [r]: The Internet service which translates to and from IP addresses and domain names. [e]
- Unicasting [r]: In computer networks, the transmission of a frame, packet, or message, which has a destination address that maps to one and only one target [e]
- Multicasting [r]: In networking, the transmission of a piece of information such that its destination address is recognized by multiple targets of a multicast group. Broadcasting is a special case of the multicast group, when the group contains all addresses. [e]
- Multihoming [r]: A wide range of techniques for providing multiple communications paths among logical or physical points in computer networks, primarily for fault tolerance but also for load distribution or traffic engineering [e]
- Unicasting [r]: In computer networks, the transmission of a frame, packet, or message, which has a destination address that maps to one and only one target [e]
- Packet switching [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CZ Talk:Start article with subpages [r]: Add brief definition or description