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computer networking A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections ar ...
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communication protocol A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any kind of variation of a physical quantity. The protocol defines the rules, syntax, semantics and synchroniza ...
that is characterized by a relatively small overhead (caused e.g. by bulky metadata) in transmitted on top of the functional data: *
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP ) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Directory serv ...
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Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP) is a proprietary wireless LAN authentication method developed by Cisco Systems. Important features of LEAP are dynamic WEP keys and mutual authentication (between a wireless client and a RAD ...
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Lightweight Presentation Protocol Lightweight Presentation Protocol (LPP) is a protocol used to provide ISO presentation services on top of TCP/IP based protocol stacks. It is defined in RFC 1085. The Lightweight Presentation Protocol describes an approach for providing "stream-li ...
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Internet Content Adaptation Protocol The Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) is a lightweight HTTP-like protocol specified in which is used to extend transparent proxy servers, thereby freeing up resources and standardizing the way in which new features are implemented. ICAP ...
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Skinny Client Control Protocol The Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP) is a proprietary network terminal control protocol originally developed by Selsius Systems, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1998. SCCP is a lightweight IP-based protocol for session signaling with C ...
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OpenLDAP OpenLDAP is a free, open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) developed by the OpenLDAP Project. It is released under its own BSD-style license called the OpenLDAP Public License. LDAP is a platform-independe ...
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