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  2. Residential gateway - Wikipedia

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    Residential gateway. A residential gateway is a small consumer-grade gateway which bridges network access between connected local area network (LAN) hosts to a wide area network (WAN) (such as the Internet) via a modem, or directly connects to a WAN (as in EttH ), while routing. The WAN is a larger computer network, generally operated by an ...

  3. Name server - Wikipedia

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    Name server. A name server is a computer application that implements a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It translates an often humanly meaningful, text-based identifier to a system-internal, often numeric identification or addressing component. This service is performed by the server in response to ...

  4. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").

  5. Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines is an archipelago of about 7,641 islands, [200] [201] covering a total area (including inland bodies of water) of about 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi).

  6. Africell Uganda - Wikipedia

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    Africell Uganda, whose full legal name was Africell Uganda Limited (AUL), was an information and communication technology network company in Uganda. [2] It was the third-largest telecommunications company in the country, by customer numbers. [3] However, the company closed all its businesses in Uganda in 2021 based on a careful assessment of ...

  7. 6to4 - Wikipedia

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    t. e. 6to4 is an Internet transition mechanism for migrating from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to version 6 (IPv6) and a system that allows IPv6 packets to be transmitted over an IPv4 network (generally the IPv4 Internet) without the need to configure explicit tunnels. Special relay servers are also in place that allow 6to4 networks to ...

  8. IPv6 - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Internet Protocol version 6 ( IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated ...

  9. IP address - Wikipedia

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    IP address. An Internet Protocol address ( IP address) is a numerical label such as 192.0.2.1 that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. [1] [2] IP addresses serve two main functions: network interface identification, and location addressing .