Transparent Network Substrate (TNS), a proprietary Oracle computer-networking technology, supports homogeneous peer-to-peer connectivity on top of other networking technologies such as TCP/IP, SDP and named pipes. TNS operates mainly for connecting to Oracle databases.
Protocol TNS uses a proprietary protocol. Some details have, however, been reverse engineered.
See also Transparency (computing) Oracle Net Services Protocol stack
References
External links Oracle 8 Architecture and Concepts Oracle 9i Architecture of Oracle Net Services