Essay About Bombproof Network And Use Of Radio

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The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial earth satellite. In the late 1960s the
U.S. military was desperately afraid of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. The
United States formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department
of Defense to establish a bombproof network to connect military bases. ARPANETs physical
network was established in 1969 to enable universities and research organizations to
exchange information freely. The first two nodes that formed the ARPANET were UCLA and
the Stanford Research Institute, shortly after the University of Utah was added to
ARPANET.
The Network Control Protocol (NCP) was initially used as the ARPANET protocol, beginning
in 1970. By 1971, a total of 23 hosts at 15 locations were connected to the ARPANET. The
following year, the first international connections occurred, linking the University
College of London (UK) and the Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) to the ARPANET.
The way ARPANET was set up is so that if one of the network links became disrupted by
enemy attack, the traffic on it could automatically be rerouted to other links.
Fortunately, the Net rarely has come under enemy attack. In the 1970s, ARPA also
sponsored further research into the applications of packet switching technologies. This
included extending packet switching to ships at sea and ground mobile units and the use
of radio for packet switching. Ethernet was created during the course of research into
the use of radio for packet switching, and it was found that coaxial cable could support
the movement of data at extremely fast rates of speed. The development of Ethernet was
crucial to the growth of local area computer networks.
The success of ARPANET made it difficult to manage, particularly with the large and
growing number of university sites on it. So it was broken into two parts. The two parts
consisted of MILNET, which had the military sites, and the new, smaller ARPANET, which
had the nonmilitary sites. On January 1,1983, every machine connected to ARPANET had to
use TCP/IP. TCP/IP became the core Internet protocol and replaced NCP (old ARPANET
language) completely. Thanks to TCP/IP MILNET and ARPANET remained connected through a
technical scheme called IP (Internet Protocol); which enables traffic to be routed