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NetMeeting

Microsoft NetMeeting was a free Windows program combining audio, video, and data conferencing, including application sharing and a whiteboard, released in 1996 and last shipped with Windows XP before its 2003 retirement.

Netomnia

Netomnia is a UK wholesale full-fiber (FTTP) broadband network operator founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tewkesbury, selling access through its YouFibre and Brsk retail brands.

NETRA Gas Pipeline

NETRA (Norddeutsche Erdgas-Transversale) is a 341 km natural gas pipeline carrying Norwegian gas from the North Sea coast near Dornum to Salzwedel, commissioned in 1995 and owned by OGE and Gasunie Deutschland.

NETRA GmbH Norddeutsche Erdgas Transversale & Co

NETRA GmbH Norddeutsche Erdgas Transversale & Co KG is a German joint venture that owns the NETRA gas pipeline from Dornum to Salzwedel, commissioned in 1995.

NetScaler

NetScaler, formerly Citrix ADC, is an application delivery controller combining load balancing, SSL offload, and a web application firewall, sold as hardware, virtual, bare-metal, and container appliances.

Netscape

Netscape, formally Netscape Communications Corporation, was a 1990s software company in Mountain View, California whose Navigator browser dominated the web before Microsoft's bundling of Internet Explorer displaced it.

Netscape (web browser)

Netscape Navigator, later part of the Netscape Communicator suite, was a web browser released in 1994 that dominated the 1990s web, introduced JavaScript and SSL, and was discontinued in 2008.

Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator was a web browser released by Netscape Communications in December 1994, holding about 80 percent of browser usage in the mid-1990s before losing to Internet Explorer.

Netskope

Netskope is an American cybersecurity and networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded by Sanjay Beri in 2012 and publicly listed on Nasdaq under the ticker NTSK.

Netstal

Netstal is a Swiss manufacturer of high-performance injection molding machines in Näfels, serving PET preforms, closures, packaging, and medical technology since its first machine sold in 1945.

Netstat

Netstat, short for network statistics, is a command-line utility that displays network connections, listening ports, routing tables, and protocol statistics on Unix-like systems and Windows, first appearing in 4.2BSD in 1983.

NetSuite

NetSuite, formerly NetLedger, is a cloud-native ERP and business management suite launched by Evan Goldberg in 1998 and acquired by Oracle in 2016 for about $9.3 billion.

Netty

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework for Java, created by Trustin Lee and widely adopted through frameworks like Vert.x, Apache Dubbo, and the Play Framework.

NetWalker

NetWalker, also known as Mailto, was a Windows ransomware first identified in August 2019 that encrypted files on enterprise networks until a US-led law enforcement takedown in January 2021.

Network access control

Network access control (NAC) is a security approach that verifies users and devices before granting network access, quarantining or blocking noncompliant ones, based on the IEEE 802.1X standard.

Network address translation

Network address translation (NAT), also called IP masquerading, is a router function that rewrites packet addresses and ports so many private devices can share public IPv4 addresses.

Network analysis (electrical circuits)

Network analysis, also known as circuit theory, is the set of methods for determining voltages and currents in electrical circuits, chiefly through nodal and mesh analysis.

Network bridge

A network bridge, or Ethernet bridge, is a device connecting network segments at Layer 2, relaying frames by MAC address to form one local network.

Network calculus

Network calculus is a mathematical framework that computes worst-case delay and backlog bounds for packet-switched networks, modeling traffic with arrival curves and service in min-plus algebra, and certifying the Airbus A380's AFDX network.

Network clustering

Network clustering, also called community detection, is a graph analysis method that partitions a network's nodes into groups with dense internal connections and sparse links between groups.

Network coding

Network coding is a technique in information theory and computer networking where intermediate nodes combine received packets algebraically instead of only storing and forwarding them, first proposed in 2000.

Network congestion

Network congestion is a condition in which demand for a network resource exceeds its capacity, causing queueing delay and packet loss that congestion control mechanisms work to prevent.

Network data analytics function

The network data analytics function (NWDAF) is a 3GPP 5G core network function that collects data from network functions, analyzes it, and exposes statistics and predictions to consumers like the Policy Control Function.

Network Data Representation

Network Data Representation (NDR) is the transfer syntax of DCE/RPC, mapping IDL data types onto octet streams; it is the wire encoding of Windows RPC, DCOM, and Active Directory replication.

Network Development Plan (Germany)

The Network Development Plan (Netzentwicklungsplan, NEP) is Germany's central plan for expanding its electricity transmission grid, drafted by the transmission system operators and confirmed by the Federal Network Agency.

Network File System

Network File System (NFS), a distributed file system protocol created by Sun Microsystems in 1984, lets computers mount and use files on remote servers as if they were local.

Network function virtualization

Network function virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept, introduced by network operators in 2012, that replaces dedicated hardware appliances with software running on standard servers.

Network interface controller

A network interface controller, also called a network interface card or network adapter, is the hardware connecting a computer to a network, moving frames between the medium and host memory.

Network interface device

A network interface device (NID), also called a network interface unit, is a box on a building where the phone company's network ends and customer wiring begins.

Network intrusion detection system

A network intrusion detection system (NIDS) is a security technology that monitors network traffic and analyzes protocol activity to identify suspicious behavior, guided by NIST Special Publication 800-94.