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• Computer network [r]: A collection of computers or digital devices ("nodes") connected by communication links. ^[e]

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• Computer networking media sharing protocols [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Data link protocol [r]: Protocol and administrative convention to manage the interaction of two or more devices connected to a common physical medium ^[e]
• Ethernet [r]: An early proprietary standard for local area networks developed by IEEE Project 802; the term has become generic for various connectors and communications techniques although the name of a standard would be more precise. ^[e]
• IEEE 1394 [r]: Also called FireWire, a standard interface between computers and peripherals ^[e]
• IEEE 802 address [r]: In computer networking, an address that can be made unique for individual network interface cards or other physical medium interfaces ^[e]
• IEEE 802.3 [r]: The primary standards body for evolved ethernet over physical media protocols. ^[e]
• IEEE Project 802 [r]: The main standards body, with many working groups, that specifies technical standards for wired and wireless local area networks, with ranges up to tens of kilometers ^[e]
• MIL-STD-1553 [r]: An extensively used interconnection standard among military electronics components, slow in comparison with local area networks but intended for simple command-response control in electrically noisy environments ^[e]
• Medium access control [r]: The set of protocols and administrative conventions that let multiple computers or communications devices share a common network medium, usually referring to a local area network medium, but also an area of radio communications on a given part of the electromagnetic spectrum ^[e]
• Wireless local area network [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Request for Comments [r]: A Request for Comments (RFC) is one of a series of documents about the Internet, mostly technical, but some about policy issues; some become de facto Internet standards, which set the engineering specifications for the internals of the Internet, while many others languish largely or completely ignored. ^[e]
• Great Recession [r]: The disruption of economic activity that began with a downturn in 2007 and generated international repercussions that continued through 2012 and into 2013. ^[e]
• Network topology [r]: Defines the method in which a computer network is architected; topologies can be either physical (meaning how the actual hardware is interconnected) or logical (meaning how that network is implemented by protocols in software) ^[e]