Network Media Hop

09/03/2023

The term SURFING the internet was coined in 1992 by New York librarian Jean Armor Polly aka Net Mom.

23/02/2023

ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard in 1983, hence the birth of the Internet. All networks could now be connected by a universal language.

08/02/2023

The current estimate of internet users is roughly 3.26 billion worldwide, or less than half of Earth's population.

23/01/2023

There are 198.4 million active websites on the web.

04/01/2023

The backbone of the internet is made by 550, 000 miles of underwater cable.

20/12/2022

Network topology is the arrangement of the elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a communication network.[1][2] Network topology can be used to define or describe the arrangement of various types of telecommunication networks, including command and control radio networks,[3] industrial fieldbusses and computer networks.

13/12/2022

The transmission medium layout used to link devices is the physical topology of the network. For conductive or fiber optical mediums, this refers to the layout of cabling, the locations of nodes, and the links between the nodes and the cabling.[1] The physical topology of a network is determined by the capabilities of the network access devices and media, the level of control or fault tolerance desired, and the cost associated with cabling or telecommunication circuits.

28/11/2022

11/11/2022

The development of a network involves assessing the administrative and informational requirements of an organization and evaluating the costs for hardware, installation, training, security and account management.

28/10/2022

Overlay networks have also been proposed as a way to improve Internet routing, such as through quality of service guarantees achieve higher-quality streaming media. Previous proposals such as IntServ, DiffServ, and IP multicast have not seen wide acceptance largely because they require modification of all routers in the network.[citation needed] On the other hand, an overlay network can be incrementally deployed on end-hosts running the overlay protocol software, without cooperation from Internet service providers. The overlay network has no control over how packets are routed in the underlying network between two overlay nodes, but it can control, for example, the sequence of overlay nodes that a message traverses before it reaches its destination.

17/10/2022

Network congestion occurs when a link or node is subjected to a greater data load than it is rated for, resulting in a deterioration of its quality of service. When networks are congested and queues become too full, packets have to be discarded, and so networks rely on re-transmission. Typical effects of congestion include queueing delay, packet loss or the blocking of new connections. A consequence of these latter two is that incremental increases in offered load lead either to only a small increase in the network throughput or to a reduction in network throughput.

12/10/2022

The development of a network involves assessing the administrative and informational requirements of an organization and evaluating the costs for hardware, installation, training, security and account management. Once a network is deployed, networking technicians are usually responsible for ensuring the network remains operational and updated as needed. They usually provide technical support to company employees for any problems that may arise.