A specification for connecting multiple computer users on an Ethernet local area network to a remote site through common customer premises equipment, which is the telephone company's term for a modem and similar devices. 

A protocol that allows corporations to extend their own corporate network through private "tunnels" over the public Internet. Effectively, a corporation uses a wide-area network as a single large local area network. 

Pokemon is a media franchise published and owned by Japanese video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996.

Pokerstars is an online gaming site for poker and it is the largest online poker cardroom in the world.

A security component of a policy-based network that provides authorization services and facilitates tracking and control of files. 

The management of a network so that various kinds of traffic - data, voice, and video - get the priority of availability and bandwidth needed to serve the network's users effectively. 

POLISY/400 is a modern, proven, integrated general insurance administration system that provides the functionality to define and issue personal lines and commercial lines of general insurance products.

On a Web server or HTTP daemon, port 80 is the port that the server "listens to" or expects to receive from a Web client, assuming that the default was taken when the server was configured or set up. 

An extension to network address translation (NAT) that permits multiple devices on a local area network (LAN) to be mapped to a single public IP address. The goal of PAT is to conserve IP addresses.

A method of monitoring network traffic that forwards a copy of each incoming and outgoing packet from one port of a network switch to another port where the packet can be studied.

A way to identify a specific process to which an Internet or other network message is to be forwarded when it arrives at a server. 

A file format that has captured all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image that you can view, navigate, print, or forward to someone else. PDF files are created using Adobe Acrobat , Acrobat Capture, or similar products. 

A file format for image compression that, in time, is expected to replace the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) that is widely used on today's Internet. Typically, an image in a PNG file can be 10 to 30% more compressed than in a GIF format.

A set of standard operating system interfaces based on the Unix operating system. Informally, each standard in the POSIX set is defined by a decimal following the POSIX.

An application of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), describes the characteristics of a product that is used to create a portal Web site. 

Portfolio management is the centralized management of one or more portfolios, which includes identifying, prioritizing, authorizing, managing, and controlling projects, programs and other related work to achieve specific strategic business objectives