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V.34

An ITU standard that currently allows data rates as high as 28,000 bps.

Also see Bps ITU

V.34+

An enhancement to V.34 that enables transfer rates as high as 33,600 bps.

V.90

The ITU standard that allows modems to receive data at up to 56 Kbps over the standard, public switched telephone network.

Also see Kbps ITU

validating parser

A software application that checks XML documents for the presence of the document's document-type definition (DTD) and whether the document conforms to it.

valid XML document

A document that adheres strictly to the DTD specified in its document-type declaration.

Value Added Network (EDI)

See VAN

VAN (EDI)

VDA (EDI)

Veronica

(Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerised Archives) A resource-discovery system providing access to information resources held on most ( 99% + ) of the world's gopher servers. In addition to native gopher data, veronica includes references to many resources provided by other types of information servers, such as WWW servers, usenet archives, and telnet-accessible information services.

Virus

A virus is virtual evil. It can hide anywhere where a computer stores information. They have the ability to transfer from computer to computer with the use of the Internet and various other networks. A virus can do a number of things to a recipient such as reformatting hard drives (destroying data).

VPN

(Virtual Private Network). A virtual private network is a secure, private data network that is established over the Internet resulting in significant cost savings from using local, toll free access numbers. Using the existing Internet backbone requires less investment in private network infrastructure.

Also see Backbone Internet Network PPTP