- 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.
A protocol used to access e-mail or bulletin board messages from a (possibly shared) mail server. IMAP allows a client e-mail program to access remote message stores as if they were local. E-mail stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a workstation at the office, a desktop computer at home or a notebook computer while traveling, without requiring the transfer of messages or files back and forth between these computers. Details of the IMAP specification can be found at www.imap.org.
Industry:Technology
Services that provide a core set of capabilities required to enable business communications to move in a secure electronic form over the Internet.
Industry:Technology
A loose confederation of independent yet interconnected networks that use the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocols for communications. The Internet evolved from research done during the 1960s on a network called the ARPANet. It provides universal connectivity and three levels of network services: connectionless packet delivery, full-duplex stream delivery, and application-level services.
Industry:Technology
Agency of the United Nations, headquartered in Geneva. The ITU is the body through which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecommunications networks and services.
Industry:Technology
A voluntary, nontreaty organization established in 1949, as a technical agency of the United Nations, to promote international standardization in a broad range of industries. ISO’s Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model establishes guidelines for network architectures.
Industry:Technology
ITU’s name for a family of 3G cellular standards. It is aimed at providing a standard framework for worldwide wireless access that links the diverse system of terrestrial- and satellite-based networks.
Industry:Technology
In December 2005, IMT-A became the ITU’s official term for 4G mobile telephony. ITU defines the objectives of IMT-A as providing throughout of up to 100 Mbps for a moving mobile device and 1 Gbps for a static device. See also 4G and LTE.
Industry:Technology
Unique number of up to 15 digits assigned to each GSM connection, containing country code, network operator code and mobile device number. See also HLR and IMEI.
Industry:Technology
Unique identity number assigned to a GSM device that can be recognized and blocked by the network to which it is connected. It is useful for fraud prevention and to bar access using a stolen phone. See also IMSI.
Industry:Technology
IRR analysis determines the interest rate and then compares this rate to the “risk-adjusted rate of return.”
industry protocol.
Industry:Technology
