network transparency

Network Transparency in its most general sense refers to the ability of a protocol to transmit data over the network in a manner which is transparent to those using the applications that are using the protocol.The term is often applied in the context of the X Window System which is able to transmit graphical data over the network and integrate it seamlessly with applications running and displaying locally.
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<networking> A feature of an operating system or other service which lets the user access a remote resource through a network without having to know if the resource is remote or local.
For example NFS allow users to access remote files as if they were local files.
(1996-12-21)