Transparent Network Substrate

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.^[1][2] Some details have, however, been reverse engineered.^[3][4]

See also

• Transparency (computing)
• Oracle Net Services
• Protocol stack