Menu
Home
Forum Rules
Store
Donate
Meltdown Mayhem Hacks ⚔︎
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Menu
Log in
Register
Home
Sweatshop - Pure Drama
Political Fray
Why is it the GOP that is keeping the impeachment discussion alive?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="The Question" data-source="post: 1185980" data-attributes="member: 1100"><p>The point is that government didn't commercialize it. The internet, as distinct from the ARPAnet, was developed and built by Ciena Corporation.</p><p></p><h3>Transition towards the Internet</h3><p>The term "internet" was reflected in the first RFC published on the TCP protocol (RFC 675:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-120" target="_blank">[120]</a> Internet Transmission Control Program, December 1974) as a short form of <em>internetworking</em>, when the two terms were used interchangeably. In general, an internet was a collection of networks linked by a common protocol. In the time period when the ARPANET was connected to the newly formed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSFNET" target="_blank">NSFNET</a> project in the late 1980s, the term was used as the name of the network, Internet, being the large and global TCP/IP network.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-121" target="_blank">[121]</a></p><p></p><p>Opening the Internet and the fiber optic backbone to corporate and consumers increased demand for network capacity. The expense and delay of laying new fiber led providers to test a fiber bandwidth expansion alternative that had been pioneered in the late 1970s by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optelecom" target="_blank">Optelecom</a> using "interactions between light and matter, such as lasers and optical devices used for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier" target="_blank">optical amplification</a> and wave mixing".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-122" target="_blank">[122]</a> This technology became known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing" target="_blank">wave division multiplexing (WDM)</a>. Bell Labs deployed a 4-channel WDM system in 1995.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-Winzer_Neilson_Chraplyvy_2018_p._24190-123" target="_blank">[123]</a> To develop a mass capacity (dense) WDM system, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optelecom" target="_blank">Optelecom</a> and its former head of Light Systems Research, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Huber" target="_blank">David R. Huber</a> formed a new venture, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciena_Corp." target="_blank">Ciena Corp.</a>, that deployed the world's first dense WDM system on the Sprint fiber network in June 1996.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-Winzer_Neilson_Chraplyvy_2018_p._24190-123" target="_blank">[123]</a> This was referred to as the real start of optical networking.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-124" target="_blank">[124]</a></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#1973%E2%80%931989:_Merging_the_networks_and_creating_the_Internet[/URL]</p><p></p><p>While government sowed the seed, it didn't bloom until it went private.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Question, post: 1185980, member: 1100"] The point is that government didn't commercialize it. The internet, as distinct from the ARPAnet, was developed and built by Ciena Corporation. [HEADING=2]Transition towards the Internet[/HEADING] The term "internet" was reflected in the first RFC published on the TCP protocol (RFC 675:[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-120'][120][/URL] Internet Transmission Control Program, December 1974) as a short form of [I]internetworking[/I], when the two terms were used interchangeably. In general, an internet was a collection of networks linked by a common protocol. In the time period when the ARPANET was connected to the newly formed [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSFNET']NSFNET[/URL] project in the late 1980s, the term was used as the name of the network, Internet, being the large and global TCP/IP network.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-121'][121][/URL] Opening the Internet and the fiber optic backbone to corporate and consumers increased demand for network capacity. The expense and delay of laying new fiber led providers to test a fiber bandwidth expansion alternative that had been pioneered in the late 1970s by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optelecom']Optelecom[/URL] using "interactions between light and matter, such as lasers and optical devices used for [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_amplifier']optical amplification[/URL] and wave mixing".[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-122'][122][/URL] This technology became known as [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing']wave division multiplexing (WDM)[/URL]. Bell Labs deployed a 4-channel WDM system in 1995.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-Winzer_Neilson_Chraplyvy_2018_p._24190-123'][123][/URL] To develop a mass capacity (dense) WDM system, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optelecom']Optelecom[/URL] and its former head of Light Systems Research, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Huber']David R. Huber[/URL] formed a new venture, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciena_Corp.']Ciena Corp.[/URL], that deployed the world's first dense WDM system on the Sprint fiber network in June 1996.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-Winzer_Neilson_Chraplyvy_2018_p._24190-123'][123][/URL] This was referred to as the real start of optical networking.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#cite_note-124'][124][/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#1973%E2%80%931989:_Merging_the_networks_and_creating_the_Internet[/URL] While government sowed the seed, it didn't bloom until it went private. [/QUOTE]
Name
Verification
Post reply
Home
Sweatshop - Pure Drama
Political Fray
Why is it the GOP that is keeping the impeachment discussion alive?
