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Internetworking involves connecting 300 computerscomputer networks or network segments together to form an internetwork (often shortened to internet), using devices which operate at layer 3 (Network layer) of the OSI Basic Reference Model (such as routers or layer 3 switches) to connect them together to allow traffic to flow back and forth between them.[1] The layer 3 routing devices guide traffic on the correct path (among several different ones usually available) across the complete internetwork to their destination.

The connecting together of networks with bridges is sometimes incorrectly termed 'internetworking', but the resulting system mimics a single subnetwork, and no internetworking protocol (such as IP) is required to traverse it. However, a single computer network may be converted into an internetwork by dividing the network into segments and then adding routers or other layer 3 devices between the segments [1].

Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetworking)

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• • internetworking
    • Internetworking involves connecting 300 computerscomputer networks or network segments together to form an internetwork (often shortened to internet), using devices which operate at layer 3 (Network layer) of the OSI Basic Reference Model (such as routers or layer 3 switches) to connect them together to allow traffic to flow back and forth between them.[1] The layer 3 routing devices guide traffic on the correct path (among several different ones usually available) across the complete internetwork to their destination.

      The connecting together of networks with bridges is sometimes incorrectly termed 'internetworking', but the resulting system mimics a single subnetwork, and no internetworking protocol (such as IP) is required to traverse it. However, a single computer network may be converted into an internetwork by dividing the network into segments and then adding routers or other layer 3 devices between the segments [1].

      Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetworking)

      (Note: The Electronic Engineers Toolbox provides an alternative set of featured links for this word at http://www.cera2.com/internetworking.htm)

      Featured Links:

      Internet Society

      The Internet Society has a wealth of information on the Net at its site, including links and papers on important technical issues such as standards (TCP/IP, etc).
      http://www.isoc.org/

      Internetworking Technology Handbook

      * Internetworking Basics * Introduction to LAN Protocols * Introduction to WAN Technologies * Bridging Basics * Routing Basics * Network Management Basics * Ethernet * etc.
      http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/

      WWW Virtual Library - History of the Internet

      A short, timeline of events and stuff about the Internet. If you are 'into' the history of the Net, at least up until 2005, this is a great site. If you realize that all the 'free' efforts of the time period 1994-2005 are basically 'over' and the Internet has become 'commercialized,' this site really brings that home in a subtle way...
      http://vlib.iue.it/history/internet/index.html

      Internetworking @ Wikipedia

      Internetworking involves connecting two or more distinct computer networks or network segments via a common routing technology. The result is called an internetwork (often shortened to internet). The most notable example of internetworking is the Internet (capitalized), a network of networks based on many underlying hardware technologies, but unified by an internetworking protocol standard, called the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). T...
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internetworking

      Internet Protocol (IP) Internetworking Transport

      Internet protocol (IP) internetworking transport is the process by which IP traffic is transported across a wide-area network (WAN) providing connectivity for geographically distributed hosts or local-area networks (LANs). Overview One of the biggest opportunities for service providers today is to provide IP–based internetworking services to meet the exponential growth
      http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/ip_int/

      ZiLOG - Targeted, Connected Applications based on ZiLOG Technologies

      Steven Pope, Systems Architect at ZiLOG, talks with eg3.com about Crimzon® Universal Remote Control Solutions (think - control your house with your iPhone) and Zdots® SBC Advantages (think - quick, evaluation AND deployment boards based on ZiLOG technologies). If you have any interest in ZiLOG or competitors like Atmel or Microchip, this is an important interview. (Keywords: ZiLOG, embedded Internet, consumer electronics, SBCs, Development...
      http://www.eg3.com/etc-awards/20090210-zilog.htm

      Internetwork Design Guide

      This publication provides internetworking design and implementation information and helps you identify and implement practical internetworking strategies that are both flexible and scalable.
      http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/internetworking/design/guide/idg4.html

      History of the Internet

      Can you imagine a world without the Internet? Well, neither can the authors of this online guide and offline book. The site is a very general overview to the Internet, but useful especially to the timeline and in getting you to think about the potential embedded Internet...
      http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/

      Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

      The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions previously performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.
      http://www.icann.org/

      Internet @ Wikipedia

      The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a 'network of networks' that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies. The Internet carries various...
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

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I don't think there ever was a lazy man in this world. Every man has some sort of gift, and he prizes that gift beyond all others. He may be a professional billiard-player, or a Paderewski, or a poet - I don't care what it is. But whatever it is, he takes a native delight in exploiting that gift, and you will find it is difficult to beguile him away from it. Well, there are thousands of other interests occupying other men, but those interests don't appeal to the special tastes of the billiard champion or Paderewski. They are set down, therefore, as too lazy to do that or do this - to do, in short what they have no taste or inclination to do. In that sense, then I am phenomenally lazy. But when it comes to writing a book - I am not lazy. My family find it difficult to dig me out of my chair.
- quoted in Sydney Morning Herald, 9/17/1895