This figure depicts the Oracle Net Services features that can be deployed in an intranet environment.
For clients, the following solutions can be implemented:
Availability, including Connect-Time Failover and Client Load Balancing
Naming Methods, including Host Naming, Local Naming, and Directory Naming
JDBC Drivers, including JDBC OCI Driver and JDBC Thin Driver
Tuning and Performance, including SDU
For application Web servers, the following solutions can be implemented:
Scalability, including Shared Server, Connection Pooling, and Session Multiplexing
Tuning and Performance, including SDU and Listener Queue size