The design principles, physical configuration, functional organization, operational procedures, and data formats used as the bases for the design, construction, modification, and operation of a communications network.
The structure of an existing communications network, including the physical configuration, facilities, operational structure, operational procedures, and the data formats in use.
With the development of distributed computing, the term network architecture has also come to denote classifications and implementations of distributed computing architectures. For example the applications architecture of the telephone network PSTN has been termed the Advanced Intelligent Network. There are any number of specific classifications but all lie on a continuum between the dumb network (e.g. Internet) and the intelligent computer network (e.g. the telephone network PSTN). Other networks contain various elements of these two classical types to make them suitable for various types of applications. Recently the context aware network which is a synthesis of the two has gained much interest with its ability to combine the best elements of both. Data format in information technology can refer to either one of: Data type File format This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... A telecommunications network is a network of telecommunications links arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links. ... Distributed computing is a method of computer processing in which different parts of a program run simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network. ... The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the concatenation of the worlds public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concatenation of the worlds public IP-based packet-switched networks. ... Bellcore named its version of IN AIN (Advanced Intelligent Network) for use in North America. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... An intelligent network is a computer network in which the network is in control of application creation and operation. ... The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the concatenation of the worlds public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concatenation of the worlds public IP-based packet-switched networks. ... A context aware network is a form of computer network that is a synthesis of the properties of dumb network and intelligent computer network architectures. ...
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