Near-term Technologies to Watch
Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Notes:
EDI over IP - Automotive Industry Action Group is developing Automotive Network Exchange (ANX) to link 40K suppliers by the end of next year with “The Big Three” using EDI over IP network (GCN, 26 Jan 1998 - “Federal Group Asks Industry for Help On EC” p
Extranets Broaden Your Business Horizons Setting Standards By Ken Nangle March 02, 1998 http://www.zdnet.com/icom/webcoach/extranet.horizon/2.html
CERTIFICATE (DIGITAL CERTIFICATE): digital documents (files) that are provided by a certificate authority to give assurances of a person's identity. They verify that a given public key belongs to a given individual.
DEMILITARIZED ZONE OR DMZ: a term used for a protected network that sits between the Internet and the corporate network.
EXTRANET: a private, secure extension of a corporate intranet that allows organizations to build a persistent network link with customers, vendors, or other business partners.
INTRANET: a network that is contained within an enterprise. An intranet uses TCP/IP, http, and other Internet protocols, and generally appears to be a private version of the Internet.
VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN): a private data network that makes use of the public telecommunication infrastructure. Privacy is maintained by the use of a tunneling protocol, encryption, and other security procedures.