Networks Vocabulary

A philosophy of making information and knowledge open and accessible to ALL. A network of networks built on open, agreed upon protocols

• Internet

• Citizen Science

• Bitrate

• Latency

Able to send bits from router to router across long distances, but they are very expensive.

• Birate

• Fiber Optic Cables

• Bandwidth

• Internet

A widely agreed upon set of rules that standardize communication between machines

• Networks

• Protocol

• Bandwidth

• HTTP

Science that harnesses the power of many individuals to solve hard, complex problems.

• Routing

• HTTP

• Citizen Science

• Packets

A protocol that standardizes the language for talking to web servers to send and receive web pages, or HyperText information (HTML pages).

• HTTP

• Redundancy

• IP

• Birate

A protocol that defines the structure of an Internet address and assigns a unique address to every device on the Internet.

• HTTP

• Internet Protocol

• pi

• Protocol

When multiple paths exist between two points. This improves reliability and makes the internet fault tolerable. Makes the routing system scalable.

• Redundancy

• DNS

• Fiber Optic Cables

• Latency

A group of 2 or more computer systems linked together.

• Networks

• ip

• Bandwidth

• DNS

The process of sending data between two computers on the internet. The data is sent through routers that determine the route.

• ip

• Fiber Optic Cables

• Routing

• Networks

The capacity of data transfer in a system. Measured by bitrate.

• Redundancy

• Bandwidth

• Internet Protocol

  (ip)

• DNS

  (Domain Name System)