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ITerminology |
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RSIP: Short for
Realm-Specific Internet Protocol, an IP address translation technique
that is an alternative to NAT. RSIP lets an enterprise safeguard many
private Internet addresses behind a single public Internet address. RSIP
functions by leasing public IP addresses and ports to RSIP hosts located
in private addressing realms. The RSIP client requests registration with
an RSIP server, or gateway. The server, in turn, delivers either a
unique public IP address or a shared public IP address and a unique set
of TCP/UDP ports and attaches the RSIP host’s private address to this
public address. RSIP can also be used to relay traffic between several
different privately addressed networks by leasing several different
addresses to reach different destination networks.
NLP: Short for
natural language processing, a branch of artificial intelligence that
deals with analysing, understanding and generating the languages that
humans use naturally in order to interface with computers in both
written and spoken contexts using natural human languages instead of
computer languages. One of the challenges inherent in natural language
processing is teaching computers to understand the way humans learn and
use language.
Opera: A Web
browser developed in 1994 by Norwegian company Telenor. Opera is boasted
as being the speediest and most standards-compliant of the current
browsers in use, supporting such standards as 128-bit encryption, SSL2
and 3, CSS1, partial CSS2, XML, HTML and JavaScript. Opera is available
for use with the BeOS, EPOC, Linux, Symbian, OS/2, Windows and Mac
operating systems.
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