Month: February 2021

Full Form of Networking Terms (Short Descriptions)

·       AGP – Accelerated Graphics Port. This bus is developed for fast video cards. It is currently up to 4X mode speed. ·       API – Application Programming Interface. ·       ARCnet – Attached Resource Computer Network is an architecture using star and bus topology. ·       ARP – Address resolution Protocol is used to resolve the hardware […]

Network Broadcasting and Multicasting

Network interface cards are usually programmed to listen for three types of messages. They are messages sent to their specific address, messages broadcast to all NICs, and messages that qualify as a multicast for the specific card. There are three types of addressing: 1. Unicast – A transmission to a single interface card. 2. Multicast […]

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