41 relations: Abilene Network, Asynchronous transfer mode, Bristol, Coloured Book protocols, Computer network, Data-rate units, Domain Name System, Edinburgh, Endianness, GÉANT, Glasgow, Harwell, Oxfordshire, Internet, Internet exchange point, Internet Protocol, Internet service provider, Internet transit, Internet2, JANET, JANET NRS, Jisc, Leeds, London, London Film Museum, Manchester, Metropolitan area network, National research and education network, Open Systems Interconnection, Optical fiber, Peering, Portsmouth, Reading, Berkshire, Research Councils UK, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Engineering Research Council, Switched Multi-megabit Data Service, TERENA, University of London Computer Centre, University of the Highlands and Islands, Warrington, X.25.
Abilene Network
Abilene Network was a high-performance backbone network created by the Internet2 community in the late 1990s.
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Asynchronous transfer mode
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is, according to the ATM Forum, "a telecommunications concept defined by ANSI and ITU (formerly CCITT) standards for carriage of a complete range of user traffic, including voice, data, and video signals".
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Coloured Book protocols
The Coloured Book protocols were a set of computer network protocols used on the SERCnet and Janet X.25 packet-switched academic networks in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1992.
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Computer network
A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.
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Data-rate units
In telecommunications, data-transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.
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Domain Name System
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.
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Endianness
Endianness refers to the sequential order in which bytes are arranged into larger numerical values when stored in memory or when transmitted over digital links.
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GÉANT
GÉANT is the pan-European data network for the research and education community.
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Glasgow
Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.
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Harwell, Oxfordshire
Harwell is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse about west of Didcot, roughly east of Wantage and approximately south of Oxford.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Internet exchange point
An Internet exchange point (IX or IXP) is the physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers (ISPs) and content delivery networks (CDNs) exchange Internet traffic between their networks (autonomous systems).
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Internet Protocol
The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.
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Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.
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Internet transit
Internet transit is the service of allowing network traffic to cross or "transit" a computer network, usually used to connect a smaller Internet service provider (ISP) to the larger Internet.
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Internet2
Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government.
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JANET
Janet is a high-speed network for the UK research and education community provided by Jisc, a not-for-profit company set up to provide computing support for education.
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JANET NRS
The JANET NRS (Name Registration Scheme) was a pseudo-hierarchical naming scheme used on British academic and research networks until the superficially similar system used by the Internet DNS was fully established.
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Jisc
Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company whose role is to support post-16 and higher education, and research, by providing relevant and useful advice, digital resources and network and technology services, while researching and developing new technologies and ways of working.
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Leeds
Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Film Museum
The London Film Museum, founded and created by Jonathan Sands in February 2008, is a museum dedicated to the British film industry.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Metropolitan area network
A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a that interconnects users with computer resources in a geographic area or region larger than that covered by even a large local area network (LAN) but smaller than the area covered by a wide area network (WAN).
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National research and education network
A National Research and Education Network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country.
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Open Systems Interconnection
The Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model) is a conceptual model that characterizes and standardizes the communication functions of a telecommunication or computing system without regard to its underlying internal structure and technology.
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Optical fiber
An optical fiber or optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair.
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Peering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the users of each network.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.
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Reading, Berkshire
Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.
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Research Councils UK
Research Councils UK, known as RCUK, was a non-departmental public body which coordinated science policy in the United Kingdom.
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
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Science and Engineering Research Council
The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) was the UK agency in charge of publicly funded scientific and engineering research activities, including astronomy, biotechnology and biological sciences, space research and particle physics, between 1965 and 1994.
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Switched Multi-megabit Data Service
Switched Multi-megabit Data Service (SMDS) was a connectionless service used to connect LANs, MANs and WANs to exchange data, in early 1990s.
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TERENA
The Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) was a not-for-profit association of European national research and education networks (NRENs) incorporated in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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University of London Computer Centre
The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) was founded in 1968, and was the first supercomputer facility established in London for the purpose of scientific and educational research by all of the colleges of the University of London.
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University of the Highlands and Islands
The University of the Highlands and Islands (Oilthigh na Gàidhealtachd agus nan Eilean) is a tertiary university composed of Academic Partners which are the 13 colleges and research institutions in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland delivering higher education.
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Warrington
Warrington is a large town and unitary authority area in Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey, east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester.
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X.25
X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for packet switched wide area network (WAN) communication.
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Clyde-net, ClydeNET, EaStMAN, Edinburgh and Stirling Metropolitan Area Network, JANET(UK), JNT Association, Ja.net, Janet(UK), Joint Academic Network, SuperJANET, UKERNA.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET