Monday, January 14, 2002		Bits & Bytes

HSRP: Short for Hot Standby Routing Protocol, a proprietary protocol from Cisco. HSRP is a routing protocol that provides backup to a router in the event of failure. Using HSRP, several routers are connected to the same segment of an Ethernet, FDDI or token-ring network and work together to present the appearance of a single virtual router on the LAN.

FIX: Short for the Financial Information Exchange protocol, a vendor-neutral standardised message format for describing real-time security transactions. FIX is a public-domain specification owned and maintained by FIX Protocol, Ltd.

PXE: Short for Pre-Boot Execution Environment. Pronounced pixie, PXE is one of the components of Intel's WfM specification. It allows a workstation to boot from a server on a network prior to booting the operating system on the local hard drive.