URI


Short for Uniform Resource Identifier, the generic term for all types of names and addresses that refer to objects on the World Wide Web. A URLis one kind of URI.

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  • UPnP

    Short for Universal Plug and Play, a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software and peripherals of the 400+ vendors that are part of the Universal Plug and Play Forum. UPnP works with wired or wireless networks and can be supported on any operating system. UPnP boasts device-driver independence and zero-configuration networking.

  • unicast

    Communication that takes place over a network between a single sender and a single receiver. Compare with multicast and anycast.

  • V.22

    Pronounced V-dot -twenty-two, V.22 is short for the CCITT V.22 communications standard. See under CCITT.

  • V.22bis

    Pronounced V-dot -twenty-two-biss, V.22bis is short for the CCITT V.22bis communications standard. See under CCITT.

  • V.32

    Pronounced V-dot -thirty-two, V.32 is short for the CCITT V.32 communications standard. See under CCITT.


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