Mobile virtual network operator — A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a company that provides mobile phone services but does not have its own licensed frequency allocation of radio spectrum, nor does it necessarily have all of the infrastructure required to provide mobile … Wikipedia
Mobile Virtual Network Enabler — A Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (or MVNE) is a company that provides services to mobile virtual network operators, such as billing, network element provisioning, administration, operations, support of business support systems and operations… … Wikipedia
Virtual hosting — Not to be confused with Virtual private server. Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a server using a single IP address. This allows one server to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, in order to… … Wikipedia
Virtual private network — A virtual private network (VPN) is a computer network in which some of the links between nodes are carried by open connections or virtual circuits in some larger network (e.g., the Internet) instead of by physical wires. The link layer protocols… … Wikipedia
Virtual security switch — A Virtual Security Switch is a software Ethernet switch with embedded security controls within it that runs within Virtual Environments such as VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Virtual Iron. The primary purpose of a Virtual Security Switch is to… … Wikipedia
Virtual Private LAN Service — (VPLS) is a way to provide Ethernet based multipoint to multipoint communication over IP/MPLS networks. It allows geographically dispersed sites to share an Ethernet broadcast domain by connecting sites through pseudo wires. The technologies that … Wikipedia
Virtual concatenation — (VCAT) is an inverse multiplexing technique used to split SONET/SDH bandwidth into logical groups, which may be transported or routed independently. Alternate SONET/SDH concatenation techniques are contiguous concatenation and arbitrary… … Wikipedia
Virtual synchrony — is an interprocess messaging passing (sometimes called event queue management) technology. Virtual synchrony systems allow programs running in a network to organize themselves into process groups , and to send messages to groups (as opposed to… … Wikipedia
Virtual queue — Virtual queuing is a concept that is used in inbound call centers. Call centers utilize an Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) to distribute incoming calls to specific resources (agents) in the center. ACDs are capable of holding queued calls in… … Wikipedia
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol — (VRRP) is a non proprietary redundancy protocol described in RFC 3768 designed to increase the availability of the default gateway servicing hosts on the same subnet. This increased reliability is achieved by advertising a virtual router (an… … Wikipedia
Virtual help desk — A virtual help desk allows IT support organizations to virtually deploy IT technicians on demand to support a computer user experiencing technical issues. IT can efficiently manage and allocate global help desk resources, including – most… … Wikipedia