NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Darpa, United States Air Force, Transmission Control Protocol
31 Mar 2016
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An interconnected network of a vast number of computer networks linking academic, research, government and commercial institutions. Connected through telecommunications technologies such as: telephone lines, coaxial cables, fiber optic cables, satellite and radio. The fundamental building blocks of the internet were conceptualized and then realized in actual hardware and software. Based on the experimental arpanet network (1969) funded and encouraged by the advanced research projects agency of the u. s department of defense. As an initial reaction to the launce of the sputnik. Linked the mainframe computers military agencies and research centers at universities. Intended to enable resource sharing between remote computers. Initiated as safeguard against a space-based missile attack: u. s air force interested in maintaining command and control over its missiles and bombers after a nuclear attack. Invented in 1974 by vinton and robert khan. A set of rules that allows different networks to connect. Ip is the address for the packets.
