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Gartner, Inc.
Industry: Consulting
Number of terms: 1807
Number of blossaries: 2
Company Profile:
Gartner delivers technology research to global technology business leaders to make informed decisions on key initiatives.
An industry cooperation between Ericsson, Nortel, NEC, Siemens and Huawei to define an open and published interface between radio equipment control and the radio equipment. Although open and freely available, this interface is not defined by 3GPP and is targeting WCDMA.
Industry:Technology
A now-defunct vendor consortium, which was formed to promote interoperability and portability across Unix platforms. The group’s first project was the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) specification
Industry:Technology
An Object Management Group (OMG) interoperability standard for object-oriented applications communicating over heterogeneous networks.
Industry:Technology
A set of calls developed by the X.400 API Association (XAPIA) for use on top of any existing messaging system. Programmers developing applications using these calls may request services of whatever messaging system is accepting the call. The number of calls is limited to the most popular messaging and directory lookup functions. CMC is similar to simple Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) in its breadth of services, but provides greater portability of applications.
Industry:Technology
A platform-independent development system from Microsoft that enables programs written in different programming languages to run on different types of hardware. CLI is part of Microsoft’s .NET platform and is expected to become an ECMA standard. The CLI includes the Common Type System (CTS) and Common Language Specification (CLS). No matter which programming language they are written in, CLI applications are compiled into Intermediate Language (IL), which is further compiled into the target machine language by the Common Language Runtime (CLR) software. See CLS, CTS, .NET and IL.
Industry:Technology
A remote file system access protocol that allows groups of users to work together and share documents via the Internet or their corporate intranets. CIFS is an open, cross-platform technology based on the native file-sharing protocols built into Microsoft Windows and other operating systems, and is supported on numerous platforms, including Unix. Microsoft submitted a preliminary draft of the CIFS 1.0 protocol specification to the Internet Engineering Task Force in December 1997.
Industry:Technology
A modeling schema that describes managed system, hardware, and software objects. CIM is a component of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative, an emerging Web-oriented system management standard controlled by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).
Industry:Technology
A common access card (CAC) is a single corporate card or token that can be used for PC, network and application login (user authentication) and building access. A CAC also may be used as, for example, a photo ID card and a stored-value card (electronic wallet) for vending machines and catering.
Industry:Technology
In a frame relay network, the minimum speed to be maintained between nodes.
Industry:Technology
Committed access rate (CAR) is a metric used Internet quality of service (QoS) agreements to classify and limit customer traffic and manage excess traffic according to the network policy.
Industry:Technology
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