Networking Terms

Question 1

IP Address

Answer 1

IP stands for Internet Protocol … An IP address, which is usually just called an IP, is a series of numbers used to uniquely identify a computer/device on a network or on the internet.

Question 2

SDK - stands for

Answer 2

Software Development Kit

Question 3

IGMP Snooping

Answer 3

IGMP snooping is the process of listening to Internet Group Management Protocol network traffic to control delivery of IP multicasts. Network switches with IGMP snooping listen in on the IGMP conversation between hosts and routers and maintain a map of which links need which IP multicast transmission.

Question 4

API - stand for

Answer 4

API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface, which is a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other. Each time you use an app like Facebook, send an instant message, or check the weather on your phone, you’re using an API.

Question 5

CDN - stands for

Answer 5

Content Delivery Network - is a highly-distributed platform of servers that helps minimize delays in loading web page content by reducing the physical distance between the server and the user. This helps users around the world view the same high-quality content without slow loading times.

Question 6

RTMP server

Answer 6

Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is an open source protocol owned by Adobe that’s designed to stream audio and video by maintaining low latency connections. Clients use a handshake to form a connection with an RTMP server which then allows users to stream video and audio.

Question 7

DNS

Answer 7

domain name system - The domain name system (DNS) is a naming database in which internet domain names are located and translated into internet protocol (IP) addresses. The domain name system maps the name people use to locate a website to the IP address that a computer uses to locate a website.

Question 8

UDP

Answer 8

user datagram protocol - is a communications protocol that is primarily used for establishing low-latency and loss-tolerating connections between applications on the internet. It speeds up transmissions by enabling the transfer of data before an agreement is provided by the receiving party.

Question 9

FTP

Answer 9

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.

Question 10

NTP

Answer 10

NTP stands for Network Time Protocol, and it is an Internet protocol used to synchronize the clocks of computers to some time reference.

Question 11

UPnP

Answer 11

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols that permits networked devices, such as personal computers, printers, Internet gateways, Wi-Fi access points and mobile devices to seamlessly discover each other’s presence on the network and establish functional network services for data sharing, communications, and entertainment. UPnP is intended primarily for residential networks without enterprise-class devices.

Question 12

HTTPS

Answer 12

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet.[1][2] In HTTPS, the communication protocol is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or, formerly, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The protocol is therefore also referred to as HTTP over TLS,[3] or HTTP over SSL.