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The act of one national Internet backbone provider accepting and passing traffic from another national provider
The commercial practice under which nationwide ISPs exchange each other's traffic without the payment of settlement charges
An agreement devised between two network service providers for the purpose of private and direct data exchange between their respective networks Peering agreements usually result in faster and more efficient data exchange
Internet interconnection as equals (peers) and thus no billing between the parties This is the normal method of interconnection between the sub-networks which make up the Internet Contrasts with supplier/ customer interconnection, eg ISP and end customer
The internet is made up of connections between carrier networks These connections can be through public access points (such as Network Access Points-NAPs, or Metropolitan Area Exchanges-MAEs), or through private agreements between carriers Public internet access points are often overcrowded and induce additional delay to traffic that passes through them, whereas private connections negotiated between carriers often provide smoother connections The percentage of private peering may be helpful in evaluating a carrier The higher the percentage of private peering, the less congested the network is likely to be
A business relationship whereby ISPs provide to each other connectivity to each other's downstream transit customers The terms peering and peer are often, particularly in the US, used to refer to the relationship with downstream transit customers and upstream transit providers
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When two ISPs or other providers agree to pass traffic between each others' customers, they are peering See also private peering and public peering
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To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something

He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.

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To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic
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A noble with a hereditary title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners
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Relationship between network devices that have mutual access to each other's resources
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{v} to come just in fight, peep, appear
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{n} an equal, nobleman, lord
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{i} Hebrew family name
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To come in sight; to appear
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Your peers are the people who are the same age as you or who have the same status as you. His engaging personality made him popular with his peers. to look very carefully at something, especially because you are having difficulty seeing it
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In Britain, a peer is a member of the nobility who has or had the right to vote in the House of Lords. Lord Swan was made a life peer in 1981
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(an entity) at the same protocol layer (eg at NIL, MCAST, SERVER layer)
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a person who is of equal standing with another in a group a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around
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Person of the same age or social group
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An intermediate process that can start a local client We recommend that you always start local clients by using their peer processes (with names hpxt *)
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A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm
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a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage
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If you peer at something, you look at it very hard, usually because it is difficult to see clearly. I had been peering at a computer print-out that made no sense at all He watched the Customs official peer into the driver's window
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An ISP with which one has a peering relationship
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To be, or to assume to be, equal
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Another news server that connects to exchange news through a newsfeed
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(n ) In networking, a hardware or software unit that is in the same protocol layer as another unit
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a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
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Term used to describe networked computers with equal status (see client and server)
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Somebody or something who/that is at an equal level
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To make equal in rank
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{i} person of equal rank or standing; friend, companion; nobleman
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an equal; a match; a mate
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To look at surreptitiously
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The actual implementation of a GUI component on a specific platform Peer components reside within a Toolkit object See Toolkit
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An immediately adjacent router with which a protocol relationship has been established Also called a neighbor
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look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around"
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A holder of a noble title See PEERAGE
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In networking, a device to which a computer has a network connection that is relatively symmetrical, i e where both devices can initiate or respond to a similar set of requests
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A router that operates on the same protocol layer as another router
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A Knight, Laurel, or Pelican
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A peer is a computing node that talks to other peers as an equal A peer can both initiate connection to other peers and accept connections from other peers
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When two programs are sending data to each other over a network, they are peers This term is usually seen in the phrase "remote peer", meaning "the host that you are exchanging data with"
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In networking, any functional unit in the same layer as another entity
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A term used of the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) to refer to the underlying classes that provide the platform-specific implementation of component classes
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In the context of this document, a peer refers to a PIX Firewall or other device, such as a Cisco router, that participates in IPSec, IKE, and CA
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To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day
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Any computer that may both request and provide services
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The term 'peer' is used in this project to indicate a relationship based on shared/equivalent professional expertise That is, 'peers' are those who have expertise that is relevant to the design and construction of ICT-based resources, including expertise relevant to making judgements about the quality of a resource
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an equal, as in: When it comes to playing the violin, he has no peer
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A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate
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{f} look, glance
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A person who has received a Patent of Arms and who is considered to embody the ideals of chivalry and courtesy
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A non-RADGUARD external device that protects transmitted data using the IPsec security mechanism
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One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc
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