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UPnP Last modified: Friday, November 16, 2001

Short for Universal Plug and Play, a networking architecture that provides compatibility among networking equipment, software and peripherals of the 400+ vendors that are part of the Universal Plug and Play Forum. UPnP works with wired or wireless networks and can be supported on any operating system. UPnP boasts device-driver independence and zero-configuration networking.

Microsoft's UPnP Site Download the UPnP development kit to create UPnP devices for Windows. UPnP Forum Official Web site of the UPnP forum. Contains information on membership, events, certification and the UPnP initiative. UPnP SDK for Linux Download the UPnP development kit to create UPnP devices for Linux.