137 relations: AAA (computer security), ACD (telecommunications company), Advanced Network and Services, Alpena, Michigan, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Ameritech, Ann Arbor, Michigan, ARPANET, Asynchronous serial communication, Batch processing, Business, Business continuity, CDC 6000 series, CDC SCOPE, Central Michigan University, Chicago, Cisco Systems, Cloud storage, Colocation centre, Comodo Group, Cyberattack, Dark fibre, DATAPAC, Detroit–Windsor Tunnel, Dial-up Internet access, Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital Signal 1, Digital Signal 3, Disaster recovery, Domain Name System, E-Rate, Eastern Michigan University, Education, Electrical engineering, Email, Emeritus, Federated identity, Ferris State University, Fiber-optic communication, Gigabit Ethernet, Government, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Valley State University, GTE, Health care, IBM, IBM System/360 Model 67, Indefeasible rights of use, Intermediate school district, Internet, ..., Internet protocol suite, Internet service provider, Internet2, IPTV, Lake Superior State University, Lansing, Michigan, Library of Michigan, Local area network, Mackinac Bridge, Mainframe computer, MCI Communications, Michigan, Michigan Cyber Range, Michigan eLibrary, Michigan Library Association, Michigan Public Service Commission, Michigan State University, Michigan Technological University, Michigan Terminal System, Michigan Union, Mile2, Multicast, MVS, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National LambdaRail, National Science Foundation Network, Network access point, Network monitoring, Network operations center, Network Time Protocol, New York City, Nonprofit organization, North American Network Operators' Group, Northern Michigan University, Novell, Oakland University, OARnet, Open Student Television Network, Optical fiber, ORION (research and education network), PDP-10, PDP-11, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Point of presence, Point-to-point (telecommunications), Printed circuit board, Professional development, Public university, RADIUS, Rockwell Automation, Router (computing), Routing Assets Database, Saline, Michigan, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Single sign-on, SME (society), Soo Locks, Southfield, Michigan, Sprint Corporation, Telenet, Terminal server, Toledo, Ohio, Tymnet, United States Department of Defense, University, University of Michigan, University of Michigan College of Engineering, Unix, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Value-added network, VAX, Veeam, Very high-speed Backbone Network Service, Virtual private network, VMware, Voice over IP, Washington, D.C., Wayne State University, Western Michigan University, Wide area network, Windsor, Ontario, WiscNet, Wisconsin, X.25, Zimbra. Expand index (87 more) »
AAA (computer security)
AAA refers to Authentication, Authorization and Accounting.
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ACD (telecommunications company)
ACD is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier and Internet Service Provider, headquartered in Lansing, Michigan.
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Advanced Network and Services
Advanced Network and Services (ANS) was a United States non-profit organization formed in September 1990 by the NSFNET partners (Merit Network, IBM, and MCI) to run the network infrastructure for the soon to be upgraded NSFNET Backbone Service.
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Alpena, Michigan
Alpena is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Alpena County.
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), nicknamed the Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009.
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Ameritech
AT&T Teleholdings, Inc., formerly known as Ameritech Corporation (and before that American Information Technologies Corporation), was a U.S. telecommunications company that arose out of the 1984 AT&T divestiture.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.
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ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.
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Asynchronous serial communication
Asynchronous serial communication is a form of serial communication in which the communicating endpoints' interfaces are not continuously synchronized by a common clock signal.
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Batch processing
In computing, batch processing refers to a computer working through a queue or batch of separate jobs (programs) without manual intervention (non-interactive).
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Business
Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (goods and services).
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Business continuity
Business continuity is the planning and preparation of a company to make sure it overcomes serious incidents or disasters and resumes its normal operations within a reasonably short period.
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CDC 6000 series
The CDC 6000 series was a family of mainframe computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation in the 1960s.
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CDC SCOPE
SCOPE, an acronym for Supervisory Control Of Program Execution, was the name used by the Control Data Corporation for a number of operating system projects in the 1960s.
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Central Michigan University
Central Michigan University (CMU) is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.
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Cloud storage
Cloud storage is a model of computer data storage in which the digital data is stored in logical pools.
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Colocation centre
A colocation centre (also spelled co-location, or colo) or "carrier hotel", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers.
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Comodo Group
Comodo is a cyber security company headquartered in Clifton, New Jersey in the United States.
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Cyberattack
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, or personal computer devices.
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Dark fibre
A dark fibre or unlit fibre is an unused optical fibre, available for use in fibre-optic communication.
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DATAPAC
DATAPAC was Canada's packet switched X.25-equivalent data network.
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Detroit–Windsor Tunnel
The Detroit–Windsor Tunnel (French: Tunnel Detroit-Windsor), also known as the Detroit-Canada Tunnel, is a highway tunnel connecting Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada.
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Dial-up Internet access
Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to establish a connection to an Internet service provider (ISP) by dialing a telephone number on a conventional telephone line.
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Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC and using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Digital Signal 1
Digital Signal 1 (DS1, sometimes DS-1) is a T-carrier signaling scheme devised by Bell Labs.
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Digital Signal 3
A Digital Signal 3 (DS3) is a digital signal level 3 T-carrier.
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Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery (DR) involves a set of policies, tools and procedures to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.
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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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E-Rate
E-Rate is the commonly used name for the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) under the direction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University (EMU) is a comprehensive, co-educational public university in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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Education
Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.
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Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a professional engineering discipline that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
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Emeritus
Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.
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Federated identity
A federated identity in information technology is the means of linking a person's electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems.
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Ferris State University
Ferris State University (FSU, Ferris) is an American public university with its main campus in Big Rapids, Michigan.
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Fiber-optic communication
Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber.
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Gigabit Ethernet
In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second (1,000,000,000 bits per second), as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard.
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Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is the second-largest city in Michigan, and the largest city in West Michigan.
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Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley State University (commonly referred to as GVSU, GV, or Grand Valley) is a public liberal arts university in Allendale, Michigan.
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GTE
GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (1955–1982), was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System.
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Health care
Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.
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IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
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IBM System/360 Model 67
The IBM System/360 Model 67 (S/360-67) was an important IBM mainframe model in the late 1960s.
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Indefeasible rights of use
Indefeasible right of use (IRU) is a permanent contractual agreement, that cannot be undone, between the owners of a communications system and a customer of that system.
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Intermediate school district
An intermediate school district, in the United States, is a term used by some states to classify a special agency that operates outside the traditional charter of a school district.
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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 protocol suite
The Internet protocol suite is the conceptual model and set of communications protocols used on the Internet and similar computer networks.
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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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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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IPTV
Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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Lake Superior State University
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Lansing, Michigan
Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Library of Michigan
The Library of Michigan is a state-run library and historical center located in Lansing, Michigan that was created to provide one perpetual state institution to collect and preserve Michigan publications, conduct reference and research, and support libraries statewide.
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Local area network
A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.
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Mackinac Bridge
The Mackinac Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac to connect the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Mainframe computer
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing.
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MCI Communications
MCI Communications Corp. was an American telecommunications company that was instrumental in legal and regulatory changes that led to the breakup of the AT&T monopoly of American telephony and ushered in the competitive long-distance telephone industry.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Michigan Cyber Range
Michigan Cyber Range was established by Merit Network in the summer of 2012 to teach cybersecurity certification courses and to provide cybersecurity-related services.
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Michigan eLibrary
The Michigan eLibrary, or MeL, is a service of the Library of Michigan.
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Michigan Library Association
The Michigan Library Association is a United States professional association headquartered in Lansing, Michigan that advocates for libraries in Michigan on behalf of the state's residents.
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Michigan Public Service Commission
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) is a regulatory agency which regulates public utilities in the state of Michigan, including electric power, telecommunications, and natural gas services.
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Michigan State University
Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, United States.
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Michigan Technological University
Michigan Technological University (commonly referred to as Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university located in Houghton, Michigan, United States.
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Michigan Terminal System
The Michigan Terminal System (MTS) is one of the first time-sharing computer operating systems.
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Michigan Union
The Michigan Union is a student union at the University of Michigan.
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Mile2
Mile2 is an information technology security company that develops and provides proprietary accredited cybersecurity certifications.
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Multicast
In computer networking, multicast is group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously.
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MVS
Multiple Virtual Storage, more commonly called MVS, was the most commonly used operating system on the System/370 and System/390 IBM mainframe computers.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
The US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a US federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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National LambdaRail
National LambdaRail (NLR) was a, high-speed national computer network owned and operated by the U.S. research and education community.
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National Science Foundation Network
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.
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Network access point
A Network Access Point (NAP) was a public network exchange facility where Internet service providers (ISPs) connected with one another in peering arrangements.
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Network monitoring
Network monitoring is the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages or other trouble.
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Network operations center
A network operations center (NOC, pronounced like the word knock), also known as a "network management center", is one or more locations from which network monitoring and control, or network management, is exercised over a computer, telecommunication or satellite network.
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Network Time Protocol
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Nonprofit organization
A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.
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North American Network Operators' Group
The North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG) is an educational and operational forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices.
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Northern Michigan University
Northern Michigan University (NMU) is a public university in Marquette, Michigan.
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Novell
Novell, Inc. was a software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah.
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Oakland University
Oakland University (OU) is a public university located in the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan.
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OARnet
The Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) is a state-funded IT organization that provides member organizations with intrastate networking, virtualization and cloud computing solutions, advanced videoconferencing, connections to regional and international research networks and the commodity Internet, colocation services and emergency web-hosting.
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Open Student Television Network
The Open Student Television Network, also known as OSTN, is a USA national student television network, headquartered in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
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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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ORION (research and education network)
The Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network (ORION) is a high-speed optical research and education network in Ontario, Canada.
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PDP-10
The PDP-10 is a mainframe computer family manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1966 into the 1980s.
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PDP-11
The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1970 into the 1990s, one of a succession of products in the PDP series.
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a high performance computing and networking center founded in 1986.
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Point of presence
A point of presence (PoP) is an artificial demarcation point or interface point between communicating entities.
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Point-to-point (telecommunications)
In telecommunications, a point-to-point connection refers to a communications connection between two Communication endpoints or nodes.
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Printed circuit board
A printed circuit board (PCB) mechanically supports and electrically connects electronic components or electrical components using conductive tracks, pads and other features etched from one or more sheet layers of copper laminated onto and/or between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate.
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Professional development
Professional development is learning to earn or maintain professional credentials such as academic degrees to formal coursework, attending conferences, and informal learning opportunities situated in practice.
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Public university
A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.
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RADIUS
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol, operating on port 1812 that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA or Triple A) management for users who connect and use a network service.
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Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is an American provider of industrial automation and information products.
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Router (computing)
A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks.
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Routing Assets Database
Routing Assets Database (RADb), also expanded as Routing Arbiter Database, run by Merit Network, is a lookup database designed to make fundamental information about networks available.
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Saline, Michigan
Saline is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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San Diego Supercomputer Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is an organized research unit of the University of California San Diego (UCSD).
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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Sault Ste.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste.
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Single sign-on
Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, yet independent, software systems.
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SME (society)
SME (previously the Society of Manufacturing Engineers) is a non-profit student and professional association for educating and advancing the manufacturing industry in North America.
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Soo Locks
The Soo Locks (sometimes spelled Sault Locks, but pronounced "sue") are a set of parallel locks which enable ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes.
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Southfield, Michigan
Southfield is a city in Oakland County of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Sprint Corporation
Sprint Corporation is an American telecommunications company that provides wireless services and is an internet service provider.
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Telenet
Telenet was an American commercial packet switched network which went into service in 1974.
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Terminal server
A terminal server enables organizations to connect devices with an RS-232, RS-422 or RS-485 serial interface to a local area network (LAN).
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Toledo, Ohio
Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States.
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Tymnet
Tymnet was an international data communications network headquartered in Cupertino, California that used virtual call packet switched technology and X.25, SNA/SDLC, ASCII and BSC interfaces to connect host computers (servers) at thousands of large companies, educational institutions, and government agencies.
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United States Department of Defense
The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.
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University
A university (universitas, "a whole") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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University of Michigan College of Engineering
The University of Michigan College of Engineering is the engineering unit of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula (UP), also known as Upper Michigan, is the northern of the two major peninsulas that make up the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Value-added network
A value-added network (VAN) is a hosted service offering that acts as an intermediary between business partners sharing standards based or proprietary data via shared business processes.
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VAX
VAX is a discontinued instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the mid-1970s.
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Veeam
Veeam Software is a privately held information technology company that develops backup, disaster recovery and intelligent data management software for virtual, physical and multi-cloud infrastructures.
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Very high-speed Backbone Network Service
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 high-speed interconnection between NSF-sponsored supercomputing centers and select access points in the United States.
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Virtual private network
A virtual private network (VPN) extends a private network across a public network, and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network.
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VMware
VMware, Inc. is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies that provides cloud computing and platform virtualization software and services.
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Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol (also voice over IP, VoIP or IP telephony) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Wayne State University
Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan.
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Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University (WMU) is a public research university in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.
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Wide area network
A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network or computer network that extends over a large geographical distance/place.
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Windsor, Ontario
Windsor is a city in Ontario and the southernmost city in Canada.
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WiscNet
WiscNet is a non-profit organization that maintains a computer network for Internet access for school districts, colleges, universities, and libraries in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.
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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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Zimbra
Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a collaborative software suite, that includes an email server and web client.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_Network