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Pages 282-286

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... Broadband network, A flexible, all-purpose, two-way medium that will offer the high bandwidth necessary for both conventional video and high-definition television, and for still-frame displays for information retrieval, catalog shopping, and so on. CCITT, Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy.
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... HPCCIT, High Performance Computing and Communications Information Technology Subcommittee, under the Office of Science and Technology Policy. IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force.
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From page 284...
... Telephone companies typically call that connection the "subscriber loop"; cable television or radio/wireless connections may bear different labels, given their origins as something other than the twisted copper wire pair loop historically typical in telephony. "Access circuit" is another label for the generic concept of connection between a customer or user and the main part of a service provider's network.
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... UDP, User Datagram Protocol. vBNS, Very high speed backbone network service The small backbone network NSF plans to introduce in 1994 to replace the larger NSFNET backbone service.
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Key Terms

  • information infrastructure
  • backbone network
  • network service
  • communications initiative
  • integrated services

  • international organization
  • cable television
  • internet exchange
  • technology council
  • services digital

  • speed backbone
  • digital network
  • local access
  • broadband integrated
  • specifying standardized

  • agency backbone
  • fiber distributed
  • science internet
  • layers promulgated
  • backbone service

  • education network
  • file exchange
  • national information
  • supports file
  • fifth component

  • albert gore
  • unregulated services
  • television industry
  • internet operated
  • optical network


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