Ras meaning

Remote Access Server. A host computer on a local area network (LAN) and equipped with modems to serve the needs of end users for dial-up access to internal computer resources through the public switched telephone network (PSTN).An RAS also can take the form of purpose-built hardware with either integral modems or ISDN interfaces. An RAS generally is associated with a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server that performs authentication, authorization, and accounting functions to ensure network security. See also authentication, authorization, ISDN, LAN, modem, NAS, PSTN, RADIUS, and security.
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Plural form of Ra.
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Registration/Admission/Status. In H.323-compliant multimedia networks, the protocol that supports communications between terminals (i.e., endpoint devices) and the gatekeeper. See also H.323, gatekeeper, multimedia, and terminal.
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Ras Sentence Examples

  • He would seem to have kept down to the coast until the headland of Ras Malan was reached, scattering before him the bands of Arabitae and Oritae who were the inhabitants of this well-provisioned tract.

  • For the 150 miles between Ras Malan and Pasni Alexander was compelled by the natural barriers to march inland, and it was here that his troops sank under the horrors of heat and thirst and sand.

  • The extension of the Italian zone excited the suspicions of John, negus of Abyssinia, whose apprehensions were assiduously fomented by Alula, ras of Tigr, and by French and Greek adventurers.

  • Measures, apparently successful, were taken to reassure the negus, but shortly afterwards protection inopportunely accorded by Italy to enemies of Ras Alula, induced the Abyssinians to enter upon hostilities.

  • Angered by this step, Ras Alula took prisoners the members of an Italian exploring party commanded by Count Salimbeni, and held them as hostages for the evacuation of Wa.

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