Network Vocabulary

A philosophy of making information and knowledge open and accessible to ALL

• Internet

• protocol

• networks

• latency

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

• citizen science

• bitrate

• protocol

• latency

science that harnesses the power of many idividuals to solve hard complex problems

• DNS (domain name system)

• routing

• citizen science

• packets

A group of 2 or more computer systems linked together

• networks

• internet protocol

• HTTP

• redundancy

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

• DNS

• redundancy

• bitrate

• fiber optic cables

The amount of data transferred in a system

• bitrate

• bandwidth

• internet protocol

• latency

the capacity of data transfer in a system

• networks

• routing

• bandwidth

• packets

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

• HTTP

• internet protocol

• protocol

• latency

the time it takes for a bit to travel from sender to receiver

• DNS

• Bandwidth

• internet

• latency

used to translate domain names into IP addresses

• routing

• DNS (domain name system)

• redundancy

• protocol