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A backbone router is a router designed to be used to construct backbone networks using leased lines. Backbone routers typically do not have any built-in digital dial-up wide-area network interfaces.
Industry:Technology
A backbone is defined as a high-speed line or series of lines that forms the fastest (measured in bandwidth) path through a network. It often acts as a metanetwork.
Industry:Technology
B2B Web services refers to the IT usage scenario where a form of Web services _ SOAP, WS-* or Web-native implementation, such as representational state transfer (REST) or plain old XML (POX) — is deployed in some combination of cloud and B2B (multienterprise) integration projects. Web services are used as a multienterprise extension of internal service-oriented architectures (SOAs), or in lieu of more traditional approaches to multienterprise integration, such as Applicability Statement 2 (AS2), electronic data interchange (EDI) and FTP.
Industry:Technology
B2B gateway software is integration middleware that is used to consolidate and centralize data and process integration and interoperability between a company’s internal applications and systems, and external entities such as business partners or software as a service (SaaS).
Industry:Technology
The average speed of answer (ASA) is a standard quantitative method for measuring the speed at which call center calls are answered.
Industry:Technology
The average selling price (ASP) is the typical “street” price of any product. In Gartner communications research, it generally refers to the typical price of a mobile phone.
Industry:Technology
In an inventory system, average inventory is the sum of one-half the lot sizes plus the reserve stock in formula calculations.
Industry:Technology
An autonomous vehicle is one that can drive itself from a starting point to a predetermined destination in “autopilot” mode using various in-vehicle technologies and sensors, including adaptive cruise control, active steering (steer by wire), anti-lock braking systems (brake by wire), GPS navigation technology, lasers and radar.
Industry:Technology
An autonomous system number (ASN) is a number assigned to a local network, registered into the carrier’s routing community and placed under the umbrella of an administrative domain called an autonomous system.
Industry:Technology
