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    A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. Computers use common communication protocols over...
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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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  • In computer networking, a port or port number is a number assigned to uniquely identify a connection endpoint and to direct data to a specific service...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications...
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    A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called "clients" on computer network. This architecture is called the client–server...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    The Acorn Network Computer was a network computer (a type of thin client) designed and manufactured by Acorn Computers Ltd. It was the implementation of...
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    engineering and computer science, and can encompass areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, computer networks, computer architecture and...
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    Intranet (redirect from Intranet computer)
    An intranet is a computer network for sharing information, easier communication, collaboration tools, operational systems, and other computing services...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 programming involves writing computer programs that enable processes to communicate with each other across a computer network. Very generally...
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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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  • Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet)...
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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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    The Family Computer Network System (Japanese: ファミリーコンピュータ ネットワークシステム, Hepburn: Famirī Konpyūta Nettowāku Shisutemu), also known as the Famicom Net System...
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    Flooding is used in computer network routing algorithms in which every incoming packet is sent through every outgoing link except the one it arrived on...
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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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  • with networking capabilities were described as network operating systems, because they allowed personal computers (PCs) to participate in computer networks...
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    Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement...
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