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Octet

In computing, eight bits. An octet may be one byte; the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

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For the common Class C addresses, where the first three octets represent the network address and the last octet represents the host/node number on that network, the subnet mask would be 255.

Those damn network acronyms: addressing a few of the mysteries of network connection setup

This elaborated vehicle is here as elsewhere in Rossetti a short narrative, its action unfolding in a duration that corresponds to the duration of the reader's apprehension of the octet text.

Pre-facing simile vehicles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnets

Still, the Horn Octet, which as far as he knows is unique in the repertoire, has proved something of a hit with players.

Composer with the world at his feet; Birmingham composer Andrew Downes tells Terry Grimley how a trail of co mmissions led him from New Mexico to Prague

While the Packet Delivery Ratio reports the effectiveness in delivering IP packets to the destination, Data Delivery Ratio performs the same function, but measures the octets in the packets transferred across the network.

Quick Eagle Networks Introduces Powerful New Tool to Measure Quality of Service for IP-VPN Networks

ROCCO's algorithm enables the efficient transportation of IP/UDP/RTP datagrams over wireless links, reducing the 40 octets (=320 bits) (or 60 octets for IPv6) IP/UDP/RTP headers to a minimum of one octet (=8 bits, =one byte), while remaining resilient to bit-errors on wireless links.

Ericsson and Japan Telecom complete world's first trial of Voice-Over-IP over WCDMA

Users are able to create XUDT and XUDTS messages with lengths of up to 1,116 octets using the MGTS Message Editor or Free Format Editor.