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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/overlays.html">9.4 Overlay Networks</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/trend.html">Perspective: The Cloud is the New Internet</a></li>
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<h1>Chapter 9: Applications<a class="headerlink" href="#chapter-9-applications" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<div><p>Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But
it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.</p>
<p><em>—Winston Churchill</em></p>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/problem.html">Problem: Applications Need Their Own Protocols</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/traditional.html">9.1 Traditional Applications</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/traditional.html#electronic-mail-smtp-mime-imap">Electronic Mail (SMTP, MIME, IMAP)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/traditional.html#world-wide-web-http">World Wide Web (HTTP)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/traditional.html#web-services">Web Services</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/multimedia.html">9.2 Multimedia Applications</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/multimedia.html#session-control-and-call-control-sdp-sip-h-323">Session Control and Call Control (SDP, SIP, H.323)</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/infrastructure.html">9.3 Infrastructure Applications</a><ul>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/infrastructure.html#name-service-dns">Name Service (DNS)</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/infrastructure.html#network-management-snmp-openconfig">Network Management (SNMP, OpenConfig)</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/overlays.html">9.4 Overlay Networks</a><ul>
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<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/overlays.html#peer-to-peer-networks">Peer-to-Peer Networks</a></li>
<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="applications/overlays.html#content-distribution-networks">Content Distribution Networks</a></li>
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