meaning of TNS (Transparent Network Substrate)

Hello,

I am little bit confuseed about the meaning of TNS (Transparent Network Substrate). I know what it does: It enables Applications to communicate with different network protocols. But I don't know exactly what it is!

What is it:

• Oracle's networking architecture (or the core technology of it)
• A foundation technology, only built into the Oracle Net foundation layer
• is Oracle Net foundation layer functionality therefore equal to Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) functionality because TNS is part of Oracle Net foundation layer ???
• a Protocol
• a network protocol stack

Thanks

Axel Received on Fri Jan 09 2004 - 03:24:22 CST