Below is a table of all Internet architecture in alphabetical order and description from 0-9 and A-Z. Please note that the descriptions provided are simplified summaries and these concepts may involve more complex details.
| Internet Architecture | Description |
|---|---|
| 6bone | A network used to test the IPv6 protocol. |
| Adaptive Quality of Service Multi-Hop Routing | An advanced routing mechanism that takes QoS into account for finding optimal path in a multi-hop network. |
| Address Pool | A set of IP addresses assigned to an ISP. |
| AiScaler | A software solution to scale websites by caching and compression. |
| Any-Source Multicast | A type of multicast routing where the data can come from multiple sources. |
| Anycast | A network addressing and routing methodology in which a single destination address has multiple routing paths to two or more endpoint destinations. |
| Application-Layer Framing | A technique used in designing network protocols, where the message format and protocol logic is structured in terms of messages. |
| Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation | A protocol enabling the application layer to negotiate which protocols will be used. |
| AS 7007 Incident | A major incident that affected Internet access in 1997 due to misconfiguration of BGP. |
| Authenticated Received Chain | An email authentication system designed to allow an intermediate mail server to sign an email’s original authentication results. |
| Autonomous System (Internet) | A collection of connected Internet Protocol routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators. |
| Internet Backbone | The principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected computer networks and core routers on the Internet. |
| Internet Architecture Board | A committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and an advisory body of the Internet Society (ISOC). |
| Border Gateway Multicast Protocol | A multicast routing protocol used to support multicast data transmission over Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) networks. |
| Border Gateway Protocol | A protocol that manages how packets are routed across the internet through the exchange of routing and reachability information among edge routers. |
| Bufferbloat | A phenomenon in packet-switched networks in which excess buffering of packets causes high latency and packet delay variation. |
| Butterfly Network | A type of network topology where each node is connected to others in a “butterfly” pattern, allowing for efficient routing of data. |
| Certificate Server | A server on a network that issues digital certificates to users or computers. |
| CIDR Notation | A standard syntax for writing IP addresses and their associated routing prefix. |
| Circuit-Level Gateway | A type of firewall that works at the session layer of the OSI model, or as a “shim-layer” between the application layer and the transport layer of the TCP/IP stack. |
| Classful Network | An IP addressing scheme that predates CIDR notation, in which an IP address’s class can be A, B, or C. |
| Classless Inter-Domain Routing | An improvement of classful network design that allows for more efficient allocation of IP addresses. |
| Clean Slate Program | A research program to re-examine and re-design the Internet architecture. |
| COinS | Context Objects in Spans, a simple, ad hoc community specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML. |
| Colocation Centre | A data center where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. |
| Connection-Oriented Communication | A network communication mode in networks where a communication session or a semi-permanent connection is established before any useful data can be transferred. |
| Connectionless Communication | A data transmission method in which communication occurs between hosts with no previous setup. |
| Control Plane | A part of a network that carries signaling traffic and is responsible |
| Core Router | A router in the internet backbone that forwards information to other routers, not to consumers. |
| Critical Internet Infrastructure | Core components of the internet that are necessary for its operation, including DNS, routers, data centers, etc. |
| Darknet | An anonymizing network where connections are made only between trusted peers. |
| Default Route | A setting on a computer that defines the packet forwarding rule to use when no specific route can be determined for a given Internet Protocol (IP) destination address. |
| Differentiated Services | A computer networking architecture that specifies a simple and scalable mechanism for classifying and managing network traffic. |
| DIMES | Distributed Internet Measurements and Simulations, a project that performs measurements of the structure and topology of the Internet. |
| DomainKeys Identified Mail | An email authentication method designed to detect email spoofing. |
| Echo (communications protocol) | A protocol for testing reaching the host on an IP network and measuring the time it takes for packets to travel from source to destination. |
| EncroChat | An encrypted communications platform that offers secure messaging and phone calls. |
| End System | A device at the edge of the network. It refers to devices that are endpoints for information transfer. |
| End-to-End Principle | A principle of network design where application-specific functions are placed at the end points of a network. |
| EraMobile | A mobile communication technology that offers secure communication over the internet. |
| Fabric Connect | A networking technology and protocol that simplifies network configuration and administration. |
| Fate-Sharing | A design principle in distributed systems where the state of a part of the system is not preserved beyond its operational lifetime. |
| Future Internet Testbeds Experimentation Between BRazil and Europe | A collaboration to improve and increase internet interconnection between Brazil and Europe. |
| Forwarding Plane | A part of a network device that accepts a packet and forwards it towards its destination based on routing processes. |
| Future Internet | Research projects looking into what can or might come after the current Internet infrastructure. |
| Future Internet Research and Experimentation | An initiative that supports the research of new networking concepts for the Internet. |
| Gateway (Telecommunications) | A piece of networking hardware used in telecommunications for telecommunications networks that allows data to flow from one discrete network to another. |
| Global Network Positioning | A system that estimates the latency between arbitrary Internet end-hosts. |
| HERMES-A/MINOTAUR | A project aimed at developing secure, private, and reliable internet communication. |
| Hot-Potato and Cold-Potato Routing | Two methods for exchanging traffic between ISPs. Hot-potato routing sends data to the closest point on the receiving ISP’s network, while cold-potato routing sends data to the point on the receiving ISP’s network that will involve the least cost for the receiving ISP. |
| Identifier-Locator Network Protocol | A networking protocol for routing data across networks and through routers using identifiers and locators rather than addresses. |
| IEEE 802.1aq | Also known as Shortest Path Bridging (SPB). It simplifies the creation and configuration of networks, while enabling multipath routing. |
| Integrated Services | An architecture for providing quality of service (QoS) in the Internet for real-time applications like video conferencing and interactive audio. |
| Interconnect Agreement | An agreement between two Internet Service Providers to connect their networks and exchange traffic. |
| Internet Bottleneck | A point in the network where traffic coming from many devices merges and reduces the speed of the overall system. |
| Internet Mapping Project | A project aimed at visually showing the various paths through which data passes through the internet. |
| Media Type | Two-part identifier for file formats and format contents |
| Internet Mix | An anonymous network that protects privacy by encrypting messages in layers and mixing them with messages from other sources to obscure the origin. |
| Internet Outage | A situation where internet services are unavailable. |
| Internet Protocol Options | Set of optional parameters for an IP packet. |
| Internet Routing Registry | A database that collects data about how different autonomous systems of the internet will share information with each other. |
| Internet Traffic Engineering | The process of optimizing the performance and reliability of data transfer on the internet. |
| Internet Transit | The service of allowing network traffic to cross or “transit” a computer network. |
| IP Aliasing | The process of assigning more than one IP address to a network interface. |
| IP Over Avian Carriers | A humorous proposal to carry internet protocol traffic by birds such as homing pigeons. |
| IP Traceback | A name given to any method for reliably determining the origin of a packet on the Internet. |
| IPv4 Address Exhaustion | The depletion of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses. |
| Last Mile (Telecommunications) | The final leg of the networks that deliver telecommunication services to retail end-users (customers). |
| Localhost | A hostname that refers to the current device used to access it. It is used to access the network settings of a device. |
| Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol | A protocol for routing of IP packets that aims to improve scalability of the Internet. |
| Longest Prefix Match | The algorithm used by IP routers to select an entry from a routing table. |
| Loopback | A type of communication channel in telecommunications and computer networks that sends signals back to their source without intentional processing or modification. |
| Luleå Algorithm | A routing scheme used in networking to determine the path that data takes from source to destination. |
| Maltego | A platform developed to deliver a clear threat picture to the environment that an organization owns and operates. |
| Management Plane | Part of a network that carries administrative traffic and is responsible for operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning. |
| Mbone | Short for “multicast backbone,” an extension to the internet to support IP multicasting. |
| Meet-Me Room | A physical location within a data center where networks interconnect and exchange traffic. |
| Metaserver | A server that directs clients to other servers, providing a list of servers available and their status. |
| Middle Mile | The part of the network that connects the last mile to the backbone of the internet. |
| Multicast | The delivery of information to a group of destinations simultaneously using the most efficient strategy to deliver the messages over each link of the network only once, creating copies only when the links to the destinations split. |
| Multicast Routing | The process of routing data to multiple destinations via the most efficient route. |
| Multihoming | The practice of connecting a host or a network to more than one network. |
| National Science Foundation Network | An early-stage packet switching network that supported a broad range of network services, and served as a backbone for American academic and research networks. |
| Network Load Balancing | Distributing network traffic across several servers to ensure that no single server becomes overwhelmed with too much traffic. |
| Network Mapping | The study of the physical connectivity of networks. |
| NJFX | A carrier-neutral colocation campus that intersects where subsea cables from the United States, South America, Europe, and the Caribbean meet. |
| OpenURL | A standardized format for encoder-based URLs to help enable context-sensitive network services. |
| OpenURL Knowledge Base | A database of information about electronic journals and books that is used by libraries to provide services to their users. |
| Opte | Project |
| Partial-Transit Network | A type of network in which not all nodes are reachable from all other nodes. |
| Passive Optical Network | A telecommunications network that uses point to multipoint fiber to the premises in which unpowered optical splitters are used to enable a single optical fiber to serve multiple premises. |
| Path Computation Element | A network component, application, or network node which has the responsibility of computing a network path or route based on a network graph and applying computational constraints. |
| Peering | A process by which two Internet networks connect and exchange traffic. |
| Photonic Network | An optical network where switching and transmission are carried out entirely by photons. |
| Quality of Service | A feature of managed modern computer networks that is used to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. |
| Quilt (Network) | A consortium of non-profit regional network aggregators that promotes consistent, advanced networking services and technology for research universities and partners. |
| Recursive InterNetwork Architecture | A future internet architecture that replaces the traditional IP address with identifiers and locators to improve the scalability and flexibility of the internet. |
| Regional Internet Registry | Organizations that manage the allocation and registration of Internet number resources. |
| Remote Direct Memory Access | A direct memory access from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving either computer’s operating system. |
| Reverse DNS Lookup | The resolution of an IP address to its designated domain name. |
| RIPE Atlas | A global, open, distributed internet measurement platform, consisting of thousands of measurement devices that measure internet connectivity in real time. |
| Route Flap Damping | A method to decrease the instability of internet routing. |
| Route Server | A tool used at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) to simplify the configuration of BGP sessions. |
| Routing | The process of selecting a path for traffic in a network or between or across multiple networks. |
| Scalable Networking: Technology Versus Economics | A study that addresses the debate between technological and economic considerations in networking. |
| Source-Specific Multicast | A refinement of IP multicast where traffic is received from specific source addresses. |
| Stateless Transport Tunneling | A method for transmitting PPP over Ethernet which is used mainly with DSL services where users connect using PPPoE. |
| The Cuckoo’s Egg (book) | A non-fiction book by Clifford Stoll about his investigation into a 75 cent accounting error that revealed an unauthorized user who had hacked into his system. |
| Transit (Telecommunications) | A service where an ISP allows traffic from other networks to cross or “transit” their network. |
| Transport Layer Security | A cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network. |
| Trunking | A method for a system to provide network access to many clients by sharing a set of lines or frequencies instead of providing them individually. |
| Tunneling Protocol | A communications protocol that allows for the secure movement of data from one network to another. |
| Unicast | A type of network communication where the data is sent from one computer to another computer. |
| Uplink | A connection from a computer or a network to a larger network, like a connection to the Internet. |
| Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol | A protocol that allows several routers on a multiaccess link to utilize the same virtual IP address. |
| Web Cache | An information technology for the temporary storage (caching) of web documents, such as web pages, images, and other types of web multimedia, to reduce server lag. |
| Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol | A method used by clients to locate URL of a configuration file using DHCP |
| White Spaces (Radio) | Frequencies allocated to a broadcasting service but not used locally. |
| Wholesale Applications Community | An alliance of telecommunication companies aimed at building an open platform for the mobile development community. |
| Wide Area Augmentation System | An air navigation aid developed by the Federal Aviation Administration to augment the Global Positioning System (GPS), with the goal of improving its accuracy, integrity, and availability. |
| X.500 | An ITU-T standard for directory services to support the exchange of information about users, systems, networks, services, and applications. |
| Zero-Configuration Networking | A set of techniques that automatically creates a usable IP network without manual operator intervention or special configuration servers. |
| ZMap | An open-source network scanner that enables researchers to easily perform Internet-wide network studies. |
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