Network Museum
A place to share a little bit of the history and the beauty of networks with my students.
29 February 2016
Mobile telephony circa 1990
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Many people refer to older cellphones as 'brick phones' due to the size of such phones. However, there was a time - in the late 1...
08 April 2012
Peering at JINX
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The Internet - or any internet for that matter - is, by definition, a collection of connected networks. The Internet started its history i...
15 March 2012
The size of the Net
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It should be obvious that it is impossible to determine the size of the Internet. However, in the day and age in which we live, if you cann...
25 October 2011
A brief history of the cloud - as I recall
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Once upon a time wide area networks (WANs) had topologies. Lines (or sometimes waves) would connect the various nodes or sites. And whe...
11 September 2011
An ATM switch
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a networking technology that routes cells (that is, small, fixed-size packets) of data from one end of a...
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