... POP¹

POP: Point Of Presance: A host or group of hosts connected to the Internet, usually in a single physical location.

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... APNIC²

APNIC: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre: http://www.apnic.net/

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... ARIN³

ARIN: American Registry for Internet Numbers: http://www.arin.net/

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... RIPE⁴

RIPE: Réseaux IP Européens: http://www.ripe.net/

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... Layer 4 Switching⁵

Layer 4 Switching: Determining the path of packets based on information available at layer 4 of the OSI 7 layer protocol stack. In the context of the Internet, this implies that the IP address and port are available as is the underlying protocol, TCP/IP or UDP/IP. This is used to effect load balancing by keeping an affinity for a client to a particular server for the duration of a connection.

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...[16]⁶

DNS: Domain Names Service: Maps hostnames to IP addresses and vice versa on the Internet.

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...[7]⁷

HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Protocol used to transfer data on the World Wide Web

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... URL⁸

URL: Universal Resource Locator

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...[2]⁹

RPM: Red Hat Package Manager

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... Linux¹⁰

Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds

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