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- adj. communications engineering Out-of-band signaling describes signals that are sent between two parties or two devices that are sent via a path or method different from that of the primary communication between the two parties or devices.
- adj. computer security Out-of-band communication or out-of-band identity verification involves a program or authentication system's challenge and response to a user via a method other than the primary means of accessing the software. For example, a web application might request verification of a user's identity by sending that user an IM, rather than by presenting a web form for username and password entry.
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“There 's a new technology called out-of-band authentication, which we will be launching in Hong Kong in a couple of months.”
The Wall Street Journal: Citibank Pushes High-Tech in Expanding Asian Market
“The NAC Appliance can sit in-line or run out-of-band.”
“An out-of-band appliance pulls the metadata management and control operations out of the data path, offloading these to a separate compute engine.”
“The job of the agent is to pluck the metadata and control requests from the data stream and forward them to the out-of-band appliance for processing, freeing the host to focus exclusively on transferring data to and from storage.”
“The sole provider of an out-of-band appliance is LSI Logic, whose StoreAge product can be adapted to both out-of-band or split path usage.”
“Unlike an out-of-band appliance, in which the paths are split at the host, split-path systems split the data and the control paths in the network at the intelligent device.”
“Split-path systems forward the metadata and control information to an out-of-band compute engine for processing and pass the data path information on to the storage device.”
“There are traffic shaping methods which can easily and fairly ration limited upstream connectivity among customers but the major ISPs have been loath to implement them preferring instead out-of-band fees and cutoffs.”
“In this case, there is no out-of-band notification to the user.”
“It will cover both: out-of-band accessibility data for video elements, as well as in-line accessibility data and how to expose a common API in the Web browser for them.”
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