backbone
Definition
In data communications, the largest 'pipe' (cable or channel) of a network (or a network of networks such as Internet) that carries the heaviest data traffic at highest possible speed, and which connects every main server and device on the network. The 'size' (bandwidth) of a backbone is relative: a backbone in a small network would be smaller (have lower bandwidth) than the non-backbone lines in a large network.
backbone is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks, Information Science & Technology and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.
backbone appears in the definitions of the following terms: internet, enterprise network and asynchronous transmission mode (ATM)
backbone appears in the other terms: multicast backbone (Mbone), backbone firms
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