G
- gateway
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A hardware or software solution that enables communications between two dissimilar networking systems or protocols. A gateway can operate at any layer of the OSI model.
- Gb (gigabit)
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1 billion bits or 1000Mb.
- Gbps (gigabits per second)
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The throughput of a given network medium in terms of 1 billion bps.
- GFS (Grandfather-Father-Son)
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A backup strategy of maintaining backups on a daily, weekly, and monthly schedule. Backups are made on a five-day or seven-day schedule. A full backup is performed at least once a week. On all other days full, incremental, or differential backups (or no backups at all) are performed. The daily incremental, or differential, backups are known as the son. The father is the last full backup in the week (the weekly ...
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