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floating area network n.— «You’ve head of WANs (wide area networks) and LANs (local area networks). Now, get ready for a new buzz word: FAN. That’s floating area network. Port Townsend-based Mobilisa, best known for bringing Wi-Fi to the...
greynet n.— «FaceTime categorizes IM applications as “greynets”—a term for a class of applications that enter the enterprise via the end user and exhibit evasive behavior over the network (including peer-to-peer sharing, VoIP...
class break n.— «What is a “class break?” In network security jargon, that’s what happens when one breach leads to a whole new “class” of attacks on various systems, using similar methods.» —“Citibank security...
white-label adj.— «The white labeled service will let vendors provide on-demand access to branded content within the NeoEdge private network.» —“NeoEdge Networks Founded to Radically Evolve Direct-to-Consumer Services for Digital...
pur laine adj.— «It wasn’t easy, because she had chosen television and the CBC’s French network was pur laine (pure wool, as they say in Quebec) meaning old-line (white) Quebecois.» —“Breaking down solitudes in Canada—Haitian...
spalting n.— «Wood left on the ground for several months, he said, will undergo “a startling transformation and develop a spidery network of black lines.” This process, called spalting, “is due to special fungi that live...