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    A backbone or core network is a part of a computer network which interconnects networks, providing a path for the exchange of information between different...
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    The Internet backbone is the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected computer networks and core routers of the Internet. These...
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  • advanced research and education networking in the United States. The program created several nationwide backbone computer networks in support of these initiatives...
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    together the departmental networks constitutes the network backbone. Another example of a backbone network is the Internet backbone, which is a massive, global...
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  • Abilene Network was a high-performance backbone network created by the Internet2 community in the late 1990s. In 2007 the Abilene Network was retired...
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  • include 1,120 backbone nodes, with over 2,900 client computers actively linked to it. There is also an association-club that supports the network's objectives...
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    Russian backbone network (Russian Backbone Network, RBNet), which provides connection to the Internet of regional scientific and educational networks. Regional...
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  • Solicitation 93-52-Network Access Point Manager, Routing Arbiter, Regional Network Providers, and Very High Speed Backbone Network Services Provider for...
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  • Virtual routing and forwarding (category MPLS networking)
    The backbone network is completely transparent to the customer equipment, allowing multiple customers or user communities to use the common backbone network...
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    The very high-speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS) came on line in April 1995 as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored project to provide...
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  • a country. It is usually distinguished by support for a high-speed backbone network, often offering dedicated channels for individual research projects...
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    for Token Ring networks. Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), a LAN standard, was considered an attractive campus backbone network technology in the...
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  • Network Technology to Europe (DANTE) is a not-for-profit company that plans, builds and operates the consecutive generations of the backbone network that...
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  • of bandwidth, in line with growth demand. On top of this, the THUS backbone network uses MPLS technology to deliver the highest possible performance. IP/MPLS-based...
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  • filling even the largest Internet backbone network links, generating large-scale network congestion. In telephone networks, a mass call event can overwhelm...
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    Foundation Network (NSFNET), the forerunner of today's Internet. From 1987 until April 1995, Merit re-engineered and managed the NSFNET backbone service...
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    Wayback Machine – Network Access Point Manager, Routing Arbiter, Regional Network Providers, and Very High Speed Backbone Network Services Provider for...
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    connected by backbone cabling to the main distribution facility. Telecommunications rooms or telecommunications enclosure connects between the backbone cabling...
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    Core router (redirect from Backbone router)
    router is a router designed to operate in the Internet backbone, or core, or in core networks of internet service providers. To fulfill this role, a router...
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    switching) or formerly a SONET backbone network, and have a ring or mesh network topology in their core network. The networks run by access providers can...
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  • hierarchical network In May 2009, a hierarchical quantum network was demonstrated in Wuhu, China. The hierarchical network consists of a backbone network of four...
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  • up backbone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Backbone may refer to: Spinal column, core part of the axial skeleton in vertebrate animals Backbone (1923...
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    shortest path bridging protocol for Ethernet backbone network". The International Conference on Information Networking 2011 (ICOIN2011). IEEE Xplore. pp. 148–153...
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    universities and provided network access and network interconnectivity with the NSFNET project in 1986. NSFNET became the Internet backbone for government agencies...
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  • Access Point Manager, Routing Arbiter, Regional Network Providers, and Very High Speed Backbone Network Services Provider for NSFNET and the NREN(SM) Program...
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    fibre networks at the time, the dark fibre network in West Berlin had a star topology with a hub somewhere in the city centre.: 56  The backbone of the...
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    wide-area computer network protocols worldwide. When the Internet was opened to the commercial markets, multiple for-profit Internet backbone and access providers...
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    connectivity and routes IP traffic through an Internet service provider’s backbone network to the Internet A DSLAM collects data traffic from multiple subscribers...
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  • Optical Carrier transmission rates (category Synchronous optical networking)
    to OC-768 on 80,000 fiber-optic wavelength miles of their IP/MPLS backbone network. OC-768 SONET interfaces have been available with short-reach optical...
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  • the communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria. The foundational protocols in the suite...
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