Multihomed refers to a computer or device connected to more than one computer network or with more than one network address. For example, a user might be served by more than one Internet service provider. Multihoming can increase the reliability of an Internet Protocol network by reducing the risk of single-point failure.

The act of determining whether someone or something is who or what it is declared to be. In private and public computer networks, authentication can occur through the following methods:

Sometimes called a physical record, a block is a group of data bits or bytes that is transferred as a standard unit. The size (or length) of such a block depends on the communications protocol.

A logical unit of storage in the Cloud Storage service. Buckets are namespaces used to store objects, which consist of data and metadata that describes the data.

In reserved compute pools, resource bursting allows a resource group to expand demand beyond purchased resources using a separate, designated pool of host resources. To use bursting, you must configure the resource group using the Change Burst mode option in the Cloud Console dashboard.

A program that transparently stores response messages so that future requests for the same data can be served faster, reducing response time and network bandwidth. The cache subsystem also controls the message retrieval and deletion.

An abbreviation for Classless Inter-Domain Routing, CIDR is a method for defining networks with any bit-length subnet prefix length. CIDR is used in allocating Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and routing IP packets.

In Verizon Cloud, the client is a program that establishes connections for the purpose of sending requests to the server.

A distributed application structure that describes the relationship between two computer programs. In the client/server model, a client program makes a service request from the server program, which fulfills the request.

A communications model in which multiple client programs share the services of a common server program. For example, a Web browser is the client program that requests services from the verizon.com server (an HTTP server).