About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Wide area network, X.25, JANET, National Science Foundation Network, List of Internet exchange points by size, Autonomic Networking, SIMNET, CERNET, SIPRNet, Microwave Bypass, EASSy, BITNET, WAN optimization, Intelink, CSNET, Coloured Book protocols, Cisco WAAS, Open Transport Network, Data Transmission Network, DATAPAC, Dynamic circuit network, Alberta SuperNet, IEC 61334, Defense Research and Engineering Network, High Performance Computing Wales, NABU Network, Global Telecom & Technology, Open Source Information System, Telx Internet Exchange, Automatic Digital Network, JANET NRS, Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, ARCOS-1, Intergalactic Computer Network, Wireless WAN, Antilles Crossing, NATO CRONOS, Teleprocessing monitor, IBM VNET, Wide area application services, NASA Research and Engineering Network, Ipanema Technologies, Datakit, X.75, Dnsmux, Athens Internet Exchange, Defense Data Network, AUSTPAC, NIPRNet, CAVNET, Wide area file services, Bi-State Optical Network, MILNET, RIPR, ChinaNet, ERC Broadband, TechNet. Excerpt: The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) beginning in 1985 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States. NSFNET was also the name given to several nationwide backbone networks that were constructed to support NSF's networking initiatives from 1985-1995. Initially created to link researchers to the nation's NSF-funded supercomputing centers, through further public funding and private industry partnerships it developed into a major part of the Internet backbone. Following the deployment of the Computer Science Network (CSNET), a network that provided Internet services to academic computer science departments, in 1981, the U.S. National Science...
