A History of International Research Networking: The People who Made it HappenHoward Davies, Beatrice Bressan John Wiley & Sons, 26 apr 2010 - 345 pagina's The first book written and edited by the people who developed the Internet, this book deals with the history of creating universal protocols and a global data transfer network. The result is THE authoritative source on the topic, providing a vast amount of insider knowledge unavailable elsewhere. Despite the huge number of contributors, the text is uniform in style and level, and of interest to every scientist and a must-have for all network developers as well as agencies dealing with the Net. |
Inhoudsopgave
Early Days | 1 |
The Role of Funding Bodies | 27 |
Different Approaches | 73 |
The Interviews | 111 |
The Bandwidth Breakthrough | 135 |
Support for Applications | 163 |
Regional Perspectives | 179 |
A European Achievement | 235 |
Further Reading | 259 |
List of NREN Managers | 273 |
List of Network Names | 279 |
List of Terms | 293 |
List of Units | 303 |
Picture Credits | 317 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
34 Mbps academic activities Amsterdam applications backbone bandwidth Beatrice Bressan capacity CERN circuits collaboration commercial Committee configuration connections consortium coordination COSINE COSINE project cost countries DANTE DECnet Director EARN Ebone Ebone92 education network EMPB equipment ESnet established EUnet EuropaNET Europe European network European research networking fiber funding Gbps GÉANT GÉANT2 GLIF global grid GRNET HEPnet Howard Davies implementation infrastructure initial interconnection International Research Networking Internet protocol IP service IPv6 kbps lambda Latin America Mbps national research networks needed Netherlands network services Nordic NORDUnet NREN optical organization pan-European participants planning proposal R&E community R&E networks RARE RedCLARA research and education research community response RIPE NCC Science shareholders standards suppliers SURFnet switching TCP/IP technical telecommunications telecoms operators TERENA traffic transatlantic Unisource United Kingdom University UNIX users