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Meanings and definitions for APPN
What does APPN stand for? What does APPN mean?
- Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) is an extension to the Systems Network Architecture (SNA) "that allows large and small computers to communicate as peers across local and wide-area networks."
== Goals and features ==
The goals of APPN were:
Provide effective routing for SNA traffic
Allow sessions to be established without the involvement of a central computer
Reduce the requirements to predict resource use
Provide prioritization within SNA traffic
Support both legacy and APPN trafficTo meet these goals it includes features such as these:
distributed network control
dynamic exchange of network topology information to foster ease of connection, reconfiguration, and route selection
dynamic definition of network resources
automated resource registration and directory lookup.
- Advanced Peer-to-Peer Network
- Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking, IBM
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