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-Brian S. Cunal
BRIEF HISTORY OF COMPUTER
NETWORK TECHNOLOGY
-A Computer Network, or simply a network is a collection of
computers and other hardware components interconnected by
communication channels that allow sharing and resources and
information.
1940- George Stibitz used a Teletype machine to send
instructions for a problem set form his Model at Dartmouth
College to his Complex Number Calculator in New York and
received results back by the same means.
1950- Earl networks of communicating computers included
the military radar system Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
(SAGE), started in the late 1950s.
1960- The commercial airline reservation System Semi-
automatic Business Research Environment (SABRE) went online
with two connected mainframes.
Cont…
1962- Linking output systems like teletypewriters to
computers was an interest to the Advanced Research Project
Agency (ARPA) , when J.C.R Licklider was hired and developed a
working group called the “Intergalactic Computer Network”. This
concept allowed the date and programs stored within each
computer to be accessed from anywhere in the world, by any of
the computers connected to the network.
1964- Researchers at Dartmouth developed the Dartmouth
Time Sharing System for distributed users of large computer
systems.
1965- Thomas Maril and Lawrence G. Roberts created the
first WAN. This was an immediate precursor to the ARPANET, of
which Roberts became Program Manager.
At the same time, the first widely used telephone switch that used
true computer control was introduced by Western Electric.
Cont…
1972- Commercial Services using X.25, were deployed, and
later used as an underlying infrastructure for expanding TCP/IP
networks.
1991- Home Broadband was created.
1996- The 56k modem was invented by Dr. Brent
Townshend.
2000- In late March 2000, Cisco achieved a stock market
capitalization (valuation) of more than $550 million that officially
made Cisco the single most valuable corporation in the world at
that time-literally a “Fortune 1” company.
Cont...
2001- Home broadband opens mainstream usage and
begins growing at a faster rate than Internet dial-up services.
2009- 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) was the only market
segment to show sequential port an revenue growth in 2009,
due in large part to shipments of purpose built fixed 10 GE
boxes for the data center.
2010- 100 Gigabit standard fully completed.
2020- The Terabit Optical Ethernet Center are aiming for
1 Terabit Ethernet over optical fiber- One Trillionth bits per
second. By 2015, with the ultimate goal of enabling 200
Terabit Ethernet by 2020.
Conclusion:
-Today, computer networks are the core of modern
communication. All modern aspects of the public
switched telephone network (PSTN) are computer-
controlled, and telephony increasingly runs over the
Internet Protocol. The scope of communication has
increased significantly in the past decade, and this boom
in communications would have not been possible without
the progressively advancing computer network.
Introduction to Networking Terminology, Interfaces, and
Protocols
Introduction
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