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5 unusual facts about communications protocol


Agent Extensibility Protocol

The Agent Extensibility Protocol or AgentX is a computer networking protocol that allows management of Simple Network Management Protocol objects defined by different processes via a single master agent.

Communications protocol

A mathematical approach to the study of concurrency and communication is referred to as Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).

Open fiber control

In telecommunication, Open fiber control is a protocol to ensure that both ends of a fiber optic cable are connected before laser signals are transmitted in order to protect people from eye damage.

Shortcode activation protocol

This protocol would then place the user on a database, allowing matches to be submitted to the users' phone and other similar users defined by variables on the service providers' protocol requirements.

ShowEQ

SOE has used a number of encryption techniques to defeat ShowEQ, but because of the enormous bandwidth and latency demands placed on their servers, there is a point of diminishing returns with respect to strong encryption of the EverQuest protocol.


HTTP Secure

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the Internet.

Industrial USB

Industrial USB is the name given to the use of the USB protocol in an industrial environment, for data acquisition, automation, and production machine control.

Modbus

Modbus is a serial communications protocol originally published by Modicon (now Schneider Electric) in 1979 for use with its programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

Raptr

The client, which is a downloadable application for Microsoft Windows, supports AIM, Yahoo! Instant Messenger, GTalk, Windows Live Messenger, Xfire, ICQ, and Facebook Chat protocols and allows users to import their Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and Steam accounts.


see also

Secure payment

Secure Electronic Transaction, a communications protocol standard for securing credit card transactions over insecure networks