Out-of-band

вне полосы, внеполосный в телекоммуникации, а сейчас и в компьютерных сетях означает передачу управляющей информации отдельно от передачи данных. В некоторых протоколах, например в FTP, для этого используется два параллельных TCP-соединения: одно для передачи данных, другое - для управляющей информации Смотри также: out-of-band management

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Out-of-band

1. The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.

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