DEDICATED NET ACCESS (INC) history

APRANET was introduced in 1969 as the first operational packet switching network in the world.

In 1972, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn released A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection.

8 1978 (Funding for ARPANET backbone was provided the Communications Services Industrial Fund of the Defense Communications Agency)

TCP, which originally included the Internet protocol (IP), a global addressing mechanism that allowed routers to get data packets to their ultimate destination, formed the TCP/IP standard, which was adopted by the United States Department of Defense in 1980.

By 1983, ARPANET was split to create a separate MILNET for national defense and military use.

In 1985, the National Science Foundation (NSF) concluded that the Internet was a good thing, and that it should be shared beyond the DOD family.

These new commercial capabilities accelerated the growth of the Internet, which as early as 1988 had already been growing at the rate of 100 percent per year.

In 1990, these firms sent a letter to NSF announcing their intention to set up a not-for-profit, Advanced Networking and Services, to operate the backbone.

In 1993 federal legislation allowed NSF to open the NSFNET backbone to commercial users.

The infographic below, compiled by Gator Crossing, a Houston-based web hosting service provider founded in 2002, provides a history of the internet along with some facts even dedicated web geeks might not know.

The IBP, in turn, routes the data to another backbone network, which delivers the data to the ISP serving the end user to whom the data is addressed. - SBC / AT&T Merger Order ¶ 109 2005.

Not all of the largest networks (by traffic volume or interconnection counts) are Tier 1, and not all Tier 1 networks are among the largest networks. [A Baker’s Dozen in 2009, Renesys Blog (Dec.

By 2010, large incumbent providers had reestablished a strong position in the network ecosystem, and leveraged network effect and interconnection to implement strategic goals.

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