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    The NPL network, or NPL Data Communications Network, was a local area computer network operated by a team from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in...
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  • Language, an internal systems language used at Norsk Data NPL network, a computer network from 1967 until 1986, a precursor to the world wide web National...
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    1968 and incorporated it into the NPL network in England. The NPL network and ARPANET were the first two networks in the world to implement packet switching...
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  • National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK in 1965. In the late 1950s, the US Air Force established a wide area network for the Semi-Automatic Ground...
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    protocols and the essence of the end-to-end principle. The NPL network, a local area network at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), pioneered...
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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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    switching in 1965 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), proposing a national commercial data network in the United Kingdom. ARPA awarded contracts in 1969...
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  • April 1967 in a memorandum entitled A Protocol for Use in the NPL Data Communications Network. Under the direction of Donald Davies, who pioneered packet...
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    A telecommunications network is a group of nodes interconnected by telecommunications links that are used to exchange messages between the nodes. The...
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    A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area. Wide area networks are often established with leased...
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  • There are two types of radio network currently in use around the world: the one-to-many (simplex communication) broadcast network commonly used for public...
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    The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory of the United Kingdom. It sets and maintains physical standards...
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  • The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony...
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    A cellular network or mobile network is a telecommunications network where the link to and from end nodes is wireless and the network is distributed over...
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  • telecommunications networks, a node (Latin: nodus, ‘knot’) is either a redistribution point or a communication endpoint. A physical network node is an electronic...
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    A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network for interconnecting electronic devices within an individual person's workspace. A PAN provides data...
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  • A mobile network operator (MNO), also known as a mobile network provider, mobile network carrier, mobile telco, wireless service provider, wireless carrier...
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    and an interface computer were first proposed by Donald Davies for the NPL network in 1966. The same idea was conceived by Wesley Clark the following year...
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  • mobile phone network operators measured by number of subscriptions. This is a list of the world's five largest satellite phone network operators measured...
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  • switching in the local-area NPL network in 1966-69 to demonstrate the technology. Many of the wide-area packet-switched networks built in the late 1960s and...
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  • A telephone network is a telecommunications network that connects telephones, which allows telephone calls between two or more parties, as well as newer...
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  • A television broadcaster or television network is a telecommunications network for the distribution of television content, where a central operation provides...
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  • The GPRS core network is the central part of the general packet radio service (GPRS) which allows 2G, 3G and WCDMA mobile networks to transmit Internet...
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    This is a list of generations of wireless network technologies in mobile telecommunications. * latest and optimal iteration of technology ** originally...
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    A Tier 1 network is an Internet Protocol (IP) network that can reach every other network on the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection (also...
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  • CYCLADES (redirect from Cyclades Network)
    network was in full deployment, eventually numbering 20 nodes with connections to NPL in London, ESA in Rome, and to the European Informatics Network...
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    DISH Network L.L.C., often referred to as DISH, an abbreviation for Digital Sky Highway, is an American provider of satellite television and IPTV services...
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  • Flickr (redirect from Flickr Network)
    Flickr. They can also automatically update their status on other social networking services when they upload their images to Flickr. Flickr provides a desktop...
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    Interface Message Processors (IMP) for the American ARPANET and the British NPL Network. Computer Control Company developed a computer series named Digital Data...
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    Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 1965. After the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in 1967, packet switching from the proposed NPL network and routing concepts...
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