The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data...
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The Time Protocol is a network protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite. Its purpose is to provide a site-independent, machine readable date and time. The...
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The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a supporting protocol in the Internet protocol suite. It is used by network devices, including routers,...
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use different hardware or operating systems. To implement a networking protocol, the protocol software modules are interfaced with a framework implemented...
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Clock synchronization (section Network Time Protocol)
sub-millisecond levels over local area networks. A simplified version of the NTP protocol, Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP), can also be used as a pure...
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The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks for automatically assigning IP...
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In computer networking, the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core communication protocols of the Internet protocol suite used to send messages...
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The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) is a network protocol for delivering audio and video over IP networks. RTP is used in communication and entertainment...
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The Precision Time Protocol (PTP) is a protocol for clock synchronization throughout a computer network with relatively high precision and therefore potentially...
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and...
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RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) is a binary-encoded out-of-band signaling protocol that functions alongside the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). RTCP provides...
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The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for...
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federated network-wide data streams. The AT Protocol powers the Bluesky social network, which was created as a proof of concept for the protocol, and is...
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is a computer-network authentication protocol that works on the basis of tickets to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their...
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computer network. The time server may be a local network time server or an internet time server. The most important and widely used protocol for distributing...
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different type of positive leap second handling associated with the Network Time Protocol (NTP). This yields a system that does not conform to the POSIX standard...
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similar computer networks according to functional criteria. The foundational protocols in the suite are the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the User...
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Announcement Protocol (SAP), but found other uses in conjunction with the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP), the Real-time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), Session...
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Web standards. The Network Time Protocol (NTP), designed to synchronise the clocks of computers over the Internet, transmits time information from the...
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The protocol stack or network stack is an implementation of a computer networking protocol suite or protocol family. Some of these terms are used interchangeably...
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network service. A port is uniquely identified by a number, the port number, associated with the combination of a transport protocol and the network IP...
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In computer networking, Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is a data link layer (layer 2) communication protocol between two routers directly without any host...
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Application layer (redirect from Application protocol)
that specifies the shared communication protocols and interface methods used by hosts in a communications network. An application layer abstraction is specified...
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The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a network protocol that builds a loop-free logical topology for Ethernet networks. The basic function of STP is to...
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home networks or networks in automotive or industrial automation environments. IEEE 802.1AS-2011 defines the Generalized Precision Time Protocol (gPTP)...
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Task Force. He was known as the internet's "Father Time" for designing the Network Time Protocol, which is intended to synchronize all participating...
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The Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is an application-level network protocol designed for multiplexing and packetizing multimedia transport streams...
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GPS satellite constellation, a Network Time Protocol server, the CDMA cellular phone network, a modem connection to a time source, or by listening to radio...
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IPv6 (redirect from Internet Protocol Version 6)
exceptions are application protocols that embed Internet-layer addresses, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Network Time Protocol (NTP), where the new...
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IPv4 (redirect from Internet Protocol Version 4)
but large blocks are reserved for special networking purposes. The Internet Protocol ("IP") is the protocol that defines and enables internetworking at...
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