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2 unusual facts about Internet Protocol


Chaosnet

Chaosnet can be regarded as a contemporary of both the PUP protocols invented by PARC, and the Internet Protocol (IP), and was recognized as one of the other network classes (other than "IN") in the Domain Name System.

Virtual LAN

Although it was possible to use IP routing to connect multiple Ethernet networks together, the VAX-11/780 computers commonly used as routers cost $400,000 each at that time, and their total throughput was significantly less than Ethernet speeds.


Banyan VINES

The unreliable datagram service and data-stream service operated essentially identically to UDP and TCP on top of IP.

Building management system

Vendors are also producing BMSs that integrate using Internet protocols and open standards such as DeviceNet, SOAP, XML, BACnet, LonWorks and Modbus.

GPRS Tunnelling Protocol

GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) is a group of IP-based communications protocols used to carry general packet radio service (GPRS) within GSM, UMTS and LTE networks.

Holger Voss

Voss also claimed that Internet service provider T-Online saved his dynamic IP address, which was turned over to law enforcement agencies without a judge's order, for several months in disagreement with German laws (which only allow the saving of IP addresses for as long as is necessary for billing), and initiated legal action in a separate case which he won January 25, 2006.

INETCO Systems Limited

Initially, INETCO specialized in communications gateway products for dial-up point of sale and automated teller machine terminals, legacy network protocols to TCP/IP networks, transaction hosts and switches, and third-party electronic funds transfer processors for banking and payment processing.

Intercom

Digital intercoms use Category 5 cable and relay information back and forth in data packets using the Internet protocol architecture.

IP over Avian Carriers

In computer networking, IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) is a humorously-intended proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by birds such as homing pigeons.

Location Information Server

Beyond the NENA architecture and VoIP, the LIS is capable of providing location information to any IP device within its served access network.

Looking Glass Networks

The company provides rapid delivery of data transport services including SONET/SDH, Wavelength-division multiplexing and Ethernet as well as IP connectivity, dark fiber and carrier-neutral colocation.

MSML

The application server establishes a control 'tunnel' (through SIP or IP), which it uses to exchange requests/responses with the media server.

Network service

Examples are the Domain Name System (DNS) which translates domain names to Internet protocol (IP) addresses and the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to assign networking configuration information to network hosts.

NewLISP

It also provides the functions expected of a modern scripting language, including support for regular expressions, XML, Unicode (UTF-8), TCP/IP and UDP networking, matrix and array processing, advanced math, statistics and Bayesian statistical analysis, financial mathematics, and distributed computing support.

OpenCloud

OpenCloud implements these standards in its telecom service layer products to provide products that bridge the SS7 circuit-switched and IP packet-switched telecom networks.

SCVP

The Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol (SCVP) is an Internet protocol for determining the path between a X.509 digital certificate and a trusted root (Delegated Path Discovery) and the validation of that path (Delegated Path Validation) according to a particular validation policy.

Semaphore Flag Signaling System

In computer networking, Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) is a humorous proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by semaphores.

Shiva Smart Tunneling

Shiva Smart Tunneling works on UDP port 2233 by default, but can be configured to use IP protocol number 99 (reserved by IANA as 'any private encryption scheme').

Stateless protocol

For example, HTTP is an example of a stateless protocol layered on top of TCP, a stateful protocol, which is layered on top of IP, another stateless protocol, which is routed on a network that employs BGP, another stateful protocol, to direct the IP packets riding on the network.

Surf Communication Solutions

Surf's products enable convergence of voice, video and data across IP, wireline and wireless networks, including 3G-324M mobile.

Three-way hybrid

A three-way hybrid set-top box is a hybrid device typically used by Pay TV operators and Telecommunications service providers to converge content delivered via three different video transport networks – satellite, terrestrial and IP managed or public Internet.


see also

Ident

Ident protocol, an Internet protocol that helps identify the user of a particular TCP connection

IP block

An IP block (otherwise known as an IP range), a continuous segment of Internet Protocol addresses assigned to an organization or country

IPDC

Internet Protocol Datacasting, which implies Internet Protocol based datacasting (data broadcasting) over radio and television broadcasting networks such as DVB-H

SFSS

Semaphore Flag Signaling System, a fictional internet standard for transmitting Internet Protocol packets