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    A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. Today almost all computers are connected...
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  • The Network Computer (or NC) was a diskless desktop computer device made by Oracle Corporation from about 1996 to 2000. The devices were designed and manufactured...
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  • Computer and network surveillance is the monitoring of computer activity and data stored locally on a computer or data being transferred over computer...
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  • In computer networking, a port is a communication endpoint. At the software level within an operating system, a port is a logical construct that identifies...
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    Intergalactic Computer Network or Galactic Network (IGCN) was a computer networking concept similar to today's Internet. J.C.R. Licklider, the first director...
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    full operation; or to a group of computers that are linked and function together, such as a computer network or computer cluster. A broad range of industrial...
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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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  • Computer network engineering is a technology discipline within engineering that deals with the design, implementation, and management of computer networks...
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    A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called "clients" on a computer network. This architecture is called the client–server...
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  • A computer network diagram is a schematic depicting the nodes and connections amongst nodes in a computer network or, more generally, any telecommunications...
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  • Networking hardware, also known as network equipment or computer networking devices, are electronic devices that are required for communication and interaction...
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    computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. It often uses a computer network...
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  • result in the best and most robust computer networks. The information exchanged between devices through a network or other media is governed by rules...
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  • In computer networking, a reliable protocol is a communication protocol that notifies the sender whether or not the delivery of data to intended recipients...
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  • Computer network operations (CNO) is a broad term that has both military and civilian application. Conventional wisdom is that information is power, and...
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  • In computer networking, a flit (flow control unit or flow control digit) is a link-level atomic piece that forms a network packet or stream. The first...
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  • A network host is a computer or other device connected to a computer network. A host may work as a server offering information resources, services, and...
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  • telephone handset, a printer or a host computer. If a network is a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), every LAN or WAN node that participates...
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    information security. It consists of the protection of computer software, systems and networks from threats that can lead to unauthorized information...
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  • In computer networking a work group is a collection of computers connected on a LAN that share the common resources and responsibilities. Workgroup is...
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    killer applications. A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication...
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    content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare took the rights of the slogan by registering it. "The Network is the Computer" is a slogan...
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    network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, campus, or building, and has its network equipment...
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    interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists...
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    A star network is an implementation of a spoke–hub distribution paradigm in computer networks. In a star network, every host is connected to a central...
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  • Packet switching is the primary basis for data communications in computer networks worldwide. During the early 1960s, American engineer Paul Baran developed...
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    of telecommunication networks, including command and control radio networks, industrial fieldbusses and computer networks. Network topology is the topological...
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    network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface) is a computer...
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    The Cambridge Ring was an experimental local area network architecture developed at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge starting in 1974 and...
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  • Computer network programming involves writing computer programs that enable processes to communicate with each other across a computer network. Very generally...
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