The NPL network, or NPL Data Communications Network, was a local area computer network operated by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London that...
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ARPANET (redirect from Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
1968 and incorporated it into the NPL network in England. The NPL network and ARPANET were the first two networks in the world to implement packet switching...
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Packet switching (redirect from Packet-switched network)
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK in 1965. In the late 1950s, the US Air Force established a wide area network for the Semi-Automatic Ground...
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History of the Internet (section NPL network)
switching in 1965 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), proposing a national commercial data network in the United Kingdom. ARPA awarded contracts in 1969...
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National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) (redirect from Directors of NPL)
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory of the United Kingdom. It sets and maintains physical standards...
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Look up NPL in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. NPL may refer to: National Pickleball League of Champions Pros, an American professional pickleball league...
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protocols and the essence of the end-to-end principle. The NPL network, a local area network at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), pioneered...
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Communication protocol (redirect from Network protocol design principles)
April 1967 in a memorandum entitled A Protocol for Use in the NPL Data Communications Network. Under the direction of Donald Davies, who pioneered packet...
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A cellular network or mobile network is a telecommunications network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless and the network is distributed over...
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mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions. This is a list of the world's five largest satellite phone network operators measured...
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A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network for interconnecting electronic devices within an individual person's workspace. A PAN provides data...
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In networking, a node (Latin: nodus, ‘knot’) is either a redistribution point or a communication endpoint within telecommunication networks. A physical...
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A telecommunications network is a group of nodes interconnected by telecommunications links that are used to exchange messages between the nodes. The...
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The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony...
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A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area. Wide area networks are often established with leased...
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A telephone network is a telecommunications network that connects telephones, which allows telephone calls between two or more parties, as well as newer...
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A Tier 1 network is an Internet Protocol (IP) network that can reach every other network on the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection (also...
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A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a mobile network provider, mobile network carrier, mobile , wireless service provider, wireless carrier...
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Internet (redirect from Global computer network)
Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 1965. After the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in 1967, packet switching from the proposed NPL network and routing concepts...
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Router (computing) (redirect from Network router)
interface computer were first proposed by Donald Davies in 1966 for the NPL network. The same idea was conceived by Wesley Clark the following year for use...
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DISH Network L.L.C., often referred to as DISH, an abbreviation for Digital Sky Highway, is an American provider of satellite television and IPTV services...
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Mobile country code (redirect from List of GSM Network Codes)
(MCC) as well as mobile network codes (MNC). The mobile country code consists of three decimal digits and the mobile network code consists of two or three...
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Television broadcaster (redirect from Network television)
A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides...
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Donald Davies (section Computer network security)
switching in the local-area NPL network in 1966-69 to demonstrate the technology. Many of the wide-area packet-switched networks built in the late 1960s and...
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This is a list of mobile network operators (MNOs) in the United States. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), lists approximately...
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Interface Message Processors (IMP) for the American ARPANET and the British NPL Network. Computer Control Company developed a computer series named Digital Data...
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Internet protocol suite (redirect from IP network)
set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria. The foundational protocols in the suite...
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CYCLADES (redirect from Cyclades Network)
network was in full deployment, eventually numbering 20 nodes with connections to NPL in London, ESA in Rome, and to the European Informatics Network...
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A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications...
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A passive optical network (PON) is a fiber-optic telecommunications network that uses only unpowered devices to carry signals, as opposed to electronic...
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