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    UNIT 3 : Computer Networks

    14.3
    COMMUNICATION AND NETWORK CONCEPTS

    2. Access to remote database. Another major area of network use is access to remote
    database. It is easy for the average person sitting at his PC to make reservation for
    airplanes, trains, hotels and so on anywhere in the world with instant confirmation.
    3. Communication facilities. A third category of potential widespread network use is
    as a communication medium. It is possible for everyone, not just people in the computer
    business, to send and receive electronic mail. This mail is also able to contain digitized
    voice, still pictures and even moving television and video images.
    Using computer network as a sophisticated communication system may reduce the
    amount of travelling done, thus saving energy. The information revolution is expected to
    change society as much as the Industrial Revolution did.

    14.4 EVOLUTION OF NETWORKING

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    Evolution of networking started way back in 1969 by the development of first network
    called ARPANET, which led to the development of Internet. Let us learn how first network

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    evolved to today’s Internet.

    14.4.1 ARPANET

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    The seeds of today’s Internet were planted in 1969, when U.S. Department of Defense
    sponsored a project named ARPANET (acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency
    AI
    NETwork). The goal of this project was to connect computers at different universities and
    U.S. defense (American spelling for defence is defense). Soon the engineers, scientists,
    students and researchers who were part of this system, began exchanging data and
    R
    NOTE messages on it. The users of this system were also able to play long
    distance games and socialize with people who shared their interests.
    First network was ARPANET
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    ARPANET started with a handful of computers but it expanded rapidly.


    (Advanced Research Projects
    In mid 80’s, another federal agency, the National Science Foundation,
    Agency NETwork).
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    created a new, high- capacity network called NSFnet, which was more
    capable than ARPANET.
    NSFnet allowed only the academic research on its network and not any kind of
    private business on it. So many private companies built their own networks, which were
    AN

    later interconnected along with ARPANET and NSFnet to form Internet.


    It was the Inter networking i.e., the linking of these two and some other networks (i.e.,
    the ARPANET, NSFnet and some private networks) that was named Internet.
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    The original ARPANET was shut down in 1990, and the government funding for
    NSFnet discontinued in 1995. But the commercial Internet services came into picture, which
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    are still running the Internet. Fig. 14.2 illustrates the evolution of Internet.

    In 1980s, NSFnet was started


    to make a high-capacity network
    to be used strictly for academic
    and engineering research. In 1990s the internetworking of
    In 1969, ARPANET was started
    to connect computers at U.S. ARPANET, NSFnet and other
    defense & different universities. private networks resulted into
    Internet.

    Fig. 14.2 Evolution of Internet.

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