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Network Routing
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Network Routing

by Sudip Misra, Sumit Goswami
May 2017
Beginner
536 pages
15h 10m
English
Wiley
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7Exterior Gateway Protocol

7.1 Introduction

The Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) was convinced about the importance of networking in the early 1960s. ARPA collaborated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the realization of a reliable network to connect computers in academic institutions with those in the Department of Defense (DoD) of the United States and its research agencies. It was theoretically established that such a network could be based on packet switching over low‐speed dial‐up telephone links. The concept was practically tested in 1965 by connecting a computer in Massachusetts with another in California. By 1968, ARPA had finalized the design and specification of the planned network, which was called ARPANET [1]. ARPA is an organization that, on behalf of the US DoD, primarily grants funding to academic institutes and R&D divisions of private industry for next‐generation research, design, and development. BBN Technologies (originally Bolt, Beranek, and Newman), which is an American company ...

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