Networks Vocabulary

A philosophy of making information and knowledge open and accessible to ALL. A network built on open protocols.

• Bitrate

• Internet

• Bandwidth

• Latency

A widely agreed upon set of rules that standardize communication between machines.

• Citizen science

• Internet protocol

• Routing

• Protocol

Science that harnesses the power of many individuals to solve hard complex problems.

• Fiber optic cables

• Routing

• Citizen science

• Packets

A group of 2 or more computer systems linked together.

• Bitrate

• Networks

• Protocol

• Latency

Able to send bits from a router across long distances, but they are very expensive.

• Fiber optic cables

• Internet

• Domain Name System

• Redundancy

The amount of Data transferred in a system. Measured by bitrate

• Bandwidth

• Protocol

• Bitrate

• Latency

The capacity of data transfer in a system. Measured by bitrate.

• Packets

• Citizen science

• Networks

• Bandwidth

A protocol that defines the structure of an internet address and assigns a unique address to every device on the internet.

• Routing

• Protocol

• Internet protocol

• Redundancy

The latency of a system is the time it takes for a bit to travel from sender to receiver. Fiber optic cables have low latency.

• Bitrate

• Latency

• Routing

• Software

Used to translate domain names into IP addresses.

• Domain Names System

• Fiber optic cables

• HTTP-Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

• Internet protocol