| T TCP/IP
An abbreviation for Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol, an industry-standard protocol suite for wide area networks
(WANs) developed in the 1970s and 1980s by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). TCP/IP is
a routable protocol that is suitable for connecting dissimilar systems (such as Microsoft
Windows and UNIX) in heterogeneous networks, and it is the protocol of the worldwide
network known as the Internet. Microsofts implementation of TCP/IP supports industry
standards, and TCP/IP is implemented for all Windows operating systems.
Telnet
A standard TCP/IP protocol for running programs on remote
hosts. The term "telnet" also refers to the software (client or server
component) that implements this protocol on a particular platform or system. Telnet is
defined in Request for Comments (RFC) 854.
TFTP
An abbreviation for Trivial File Transfer Protocol, a
TCP/IP file transfer protocol. TFTP differs from the popular File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
in that it does not support any form of authentication. TFTP is defined in Request for
Comments (RFC) 1350.
Thicknet
The coaxial cabling used in standard Ethernet or 10Base5
networking. Thicknet coaxial cabling is usually 3/8 inch in diameter. It is fairly rigid,
has an impedance of 50 ohms, and can carry signals up to 500 meters (1640 feet)hence
the designation 10Base5 for "10-Mbps baseband transmission over 500 meters."
Thinnet
The thin coaxial cabling used for 10Base2 installations
of Ethernet networking. Thinnet cabling is RG-58 coaxial cabling that is 3/16 inch in
diameter and has an impedance of 50 ohms. Thinnet uses BNC connectors to connect cable
segments, computers, and concentrators (hubs). Many older hubs, bridges, routers, and
other networking devices have at least one thinnet port for connecting to 10Base2
networks. Thinnet was often used in the 1980s for workgroup or departmental local area
networks (LANs); it has largely been replaced by unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cabling.
Token Ring
A popular local area network (LAN) technology developed
by IBM that still has a large installed base in many shops but has been greatly outpaced
in recent years by different forms of Ethernet. Token Ring was standardized in the IEEE
802.5 specifications, which describe the implementation of a token-passing ring network
configured as a physical star topology
Tunneling
A technology for sending frames from one network to
another. In tunneling, frames from the source network are encapsulated in the frame format
of a different protocol and then sent over the link, called a tunnel. Frames are
unencapsulated at the destination network and forwarded to their destination node.
Tunneling technologies include the following:
- Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) tunneling over Internet
Protocol (IP) internetworks, which allows IPX packets to be encapsulated in an IP packet
and routed over the TCP/IP internetwork until they reach the destination local area
network (LAN), where they are unwrapped into IPX packets. This process permits NetWare
clients and servers using IPX to communicate over a TCP/IP internetwork.
- Systems Network Architecture (SNA) tunneling over IP
internetworks.
- Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP).
- Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP).
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