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    A telecommunications network connects multiple nodes that exchange messages using circuit switching, message switching, or packet switching. Nodes cooperate to pass messages from an originating node to a destination node via multiple hops. Examples include computer networks, the Internet, telephone networks, and wireless networks. Telecommunications networks conceptually consist of three planes - the data plane carrying user traffic, the control plane carrying signaling, and the management plane for network management. Data networks interconnect to allow seamless access to resources and rely on TCP/IP for communication across machines like servers in data centers. The capacity and speed of telecommunications networks have followed Moore's law, doubling every 18 months due to advances in semiconductor technology.

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    A telecommunications network connects multiple nodes that exchange messages using circuit switching, message switching, or packet switching. Nodes cooperate to pass messages from an originating node to a destination node via multiple hops. Examples include computer networks, the Internet, telephone networks, and wireless networks. Telecommunications networks conceptually consist of three planes - the data plane carrying user traffic, the control plane carrying signaling, and the management plane for network management. Data networks interconnect to allow seamless access to resources and rely on TCP/IP for communication across machines like servers in data centers. The capacity and speed of telecommunications networks have followed Moore's law, doubling every 18 months due to advances in semiconductor technology.

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    A telecommunications network connects multiple nodes that exchange messages using circuit switching, message switching, or packet switching. Nodes cooperate to pass messages from an originating node to a destination node via multiple hops. Examples include computer networks, the Internet, telephone networks, and wireless networks. Telecommunications networks conceptually consist of three planes - the data plane carrying user traffic, the control plane carrying signaling, and the management plane for network management. Data networks interconnect to allow seamless access to resources and rely on TCP/IP for communication across machines like servers in data centers. The capacity and speed of telecommunications networks have followed Moore's law, doubling every 18 months due to advances in semiconductor technology.

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    Telecommunications network

    A telecommunications network is a group of nodes interconnected by telecommunications links that are


    used to exchange messages between the nodes. The links may use a variety of technologies based on the
    methodologies of circuit switching, message switching, or packet switching, to pass messages and signals.

    Multiple nodes may cooperate to pass the message from an originating node to the destination node, via
    multiple network hops. For this routing function, each node in the network is assigned a network address
    for identification and locating it on the network. The collection of addresses in the network is called the
    address space of the network.

    Examples of telecommunications networks include computer networks, the Internet, the public switched
    telephone network (PSTN), the global Telex network, the aeronautical ACARS network,[1] and the
    wireless radio networks of cell phone telecommunication providers.

    Network structure
    In general, every telecommunications network conceptually consists of three parts, or planes (so-called
    because they can be thought of as being and often are, separate overlay networks):

    The data plane (also user plane, bearer plane, or forwarding plane) carries the network's
    users' traffic, the actual payload.
    The control plane carries control information (also known as signaling).
    The management plane carries the operations, administration and management traffic
    required for network management. The management plane is sometimes considered a part
    of the control plane.

    Data networks
    Data networks are used extensively throughout the world for communication between individuals and
    organizations. Data networks can be connected to allow users seamless access to resources that are hosted
    outside of the particular provider they are connected to. The Internet is the best example of the
    internetworking of many data networks from different organizations.

    Terminals attached to IP networks like the Internet are addressed using IP addresses. Protocols of the
    Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) provide the control and routing of messages across the and IP data network.
    There are many different network structures that IP can be used across to efficiently route messages, for
    example:

    Wide area networks (WAN)


    Metropolitan area networks (MAN)
    Local area networks (LAN)

    There are three features that differentiate MANs from LANs or WANs:

    1. The area of the network size is between LANs and WANs. The MAN will have a physical
    area between 5 and 50 km in diameter.[2]
    2. MANs do not generally belong to a single organization. The equipment that interconnects
    the network, the links, and the MAN itself are often owned by an association or a network
    provider that provides or leases the service to others.[2]
    3. A MAN is a means for sharing resources at high speeds within the network. It often provides
    connections to WAN networks for access to resources outside the scope of the MAN.[2]

    Data center networks also rely highly on TCP/IP for communication across machines. They connect
    thousands of servers, are designed to be highly robust, provide low latency and high bandwidth. Data
    center network topology plays a significant role in determining the level of failure resiliency, ease of
    incremental expansion, communication bandwidth and latency.[3]

    Capacity and speed


    In analogy to the improvements in the speed and capacity of digital computers, provided by advances in
    semiconductor technology and expressed in the bi-yearly doubling of transistor density, which is described
    empirically by Moore's law, the capacity and speed of telecommunications networks have followed similar
    advances, for similar reasons. In telecommunication, this is expressed in Edholm's law, proposed by and
    named after Phil Edholm in 2004.[4] This empirical law holds that the bandwidth of telecommunication
    networks doubles every 18 months, which has proven to be true since the 1970s.[4][5] The trend is evident
    in the Internet,[4] cellular (mobile), wireless and wired local area networks (LANs), and personal area
    networks.[5] This development is the consequence of rapid advances in the development of metal-oxide-
    semiconductor technology.[6]

    See also
    Transcoder free operation

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