Wide area network (WAN), a computer communications network that spans cities, countries, and the globe, generally using telephone lines and satellite links.
Baran was instructed to come up with a plan for a computer communications network that could survive nuclear attack and continue functioning.
The Senate bill aims more realistically to enhance merely the reliability and resilience of America's computer and communications networks.
The Chinese have also devoted enormous efforts to developing means of "electromagnetic warfare" and attacks on computer and communications networks.
This is a dangerous state of affairs, because the firms that build and run computer and communications networks focus on increasing profits, not protecting national security.
Government security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were extremely concerned that Aum could use information gained in developing the programs to cripple vital computer and communications networks at public agencies and corporations.
To achieve smooth distribution and transmission there has to be greater interaction among human operators, computer systems, communications networks and data-gathering sensors present at different substations.
Finally, we present an account of some successful applications of metaheuristics to optimization problems in telecommunications, computer communications, and network design and routing.
They are among the most effective solution strategies for solving optimization problems in practice and have been applied to a very large variety of problems in telecommunications, computer communications, and network design and routing.
Ms. Kroes will also present a draft recommendation on ensuring that network operators treat all content providers equally in the age of mobile computing, and new safeguards to make sure that universal service obligations are not neglected as alternative computer-based communications networks spread.
