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A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. The term Internet backbone is often used to describe the main network connections composing the Internet.
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A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. The term is relative as a backbone in a small network will likely be much smaller than many non-backbone lines in a large network.
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The part of a network that acts as the primary path for traffic moving between, rather than within, networks.
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The portion of a communications network that connects smaller, local networks to each other. The backbone is ordinarily assumed to carry the majority of the traffic within a network, but in fact the law of locality indicates that at least 80 percent of the traffic will remain in an invertebrate local area network.
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A cable to which multiple nodes or workstations are attached.
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