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AARNet, the Glossary

AARNet (Australian Academic and Research Network) provides Internet services to the Australian education and research communities and their research partners.^[1]

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Internet in Australia
Internet mirror services
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Acceptable use policy

An acceptable use policy (AUP), acceptable usage policy or fair use policy (FUP) is a set of rules applied by the owner, creator, possessor or administrator of a computer network, website, or service that restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used and sets guidelines as to how it should be used.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.

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Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a telecommunications standard defined by the American National Standards Institute and ITU-T (formerly CCITT) for digital transmission of multiple types of traffic.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is an Australian government statutory authority within the Communications portfolio.

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Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Australian Securities and Investments Commission

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is an independent commission of the Australian Government tasked as the national corporate regulator.

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Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is a radio telescope array located at Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

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Backbone network

A backbone or core network is a part of a computer network which interconnects networks, providing a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.

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Bit

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.

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Border Gateway Protocol

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet.

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Cairns

Cairns (Gimuy) is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland.

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CANARIE

CANARIE (formerly the Canadian Network for the Advancement of Research, Industry and Education) is the not-for-profit organisation which operates the national backbone network of Canada's national research and education network (NREN). AARNet and CANARIE are national research and education networks.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Coloured Book protocols

The Coloured Book protocols were a set of communication protocols for computer networks developed in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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Computer file

In computing, a computer file is a resource for recording data on a computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename.

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CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research. AARNet and CSIRO are scientific organisations based in Australia.

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Dark fibre

A dark fibre or unlit fibre is an unused optical fibre, available for use in fibre-optic communication.

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Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.

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Data link layer

The data link layer, or layer 2, is the second layer of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking.

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DECnet

DECnet is a suite of network protocols created by Digital Equipment Corporation.

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Domain Name System

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed name service that provides a naming system for computers, services, and other resources on the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

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Eduroam

eduroam (education roaming) is an international Wi-Fi internet access roaming service for users in research, higher education and further education.

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Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN).

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Exponential growth

Exponential growth is a process that increases quantity over time at an ever-increasing rate.

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GÉANT

GÉANT is the pan-European data network for the research and education community. AARNet and GÉANT are national research and education networks.

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Geoff Huston (scientist)

Geoff Huston is a scientist who orchestrated the construction of the first internet network between Australian universities known as AARNet.

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Geraldton

Geraldton (Wajarri: Jambinu, Wilunyu: Jambinbirri) is a coastal city in the Mid West region of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth.

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Gigabit Ethernet

In computer networking, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is the term applied to transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second.

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Going concern

A going concern is an accounting term for a business that is assumed will meet its financial obligations when they become due.

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Guam

Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.

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Hobart

Hobart ((palawa kani: nipaluna) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly half of Tasmania's population, Hobart is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-smallest by population and area after Darwin if territories are taken into account.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IiNet

iiNet Limited is an Australian internet service provider and telecommunications company that sells NBN plans, 4G and 5G Home Wireless Internet and services on its ULTRA Broadband Cable, FTTB and VDSL2 networks. AARNet and IiNet are internet service providers of Australia.

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Internet exchange point

Internet exchange points (IXes or IXPs) are common grounds of IP networking, allowing participant Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data destined for their respective networks.

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Internet in Australia

Internet in Australia first became available on a permanent basis to universities in Australia in May 1989, via AARNet.

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Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.

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Internet2

Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government.

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Internode (ISP)

Internode Pty Ltd is an Australian Internet service provider (ISP) that provides NBN broadband services, business-class broadband access, web hosting, co-location, Voice over IP, and a variety of related services. AARNet and Internode (ISP) are internet mirror services and internet service providers of Australia.

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IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet.

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ITU-T

The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

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Kevin Robert Elz

Kevin Robert Elz, often referred to in computing circles as Robert Elz, or simply kre, is a computer programmer and a pioneer in connecting Australia to the Internet, and more recently, in connecting Thailand.

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Latency (engineering)

Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Metro Ethernet

A metropolitan-area Ethernet, Ethernet MAN, carrier Ethernet or metro Ethernet network is a metropolitan area network (MAN) that is based on Ethernet standards.

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MHSnet

MHSnet is a store-and-forward Message Handling System for wide area networks. AARNet and MHSnet are internet in Australia.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Mirror site

Mirror sites or mirrors are replicas of other websites.

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Moore's law

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.

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Multiprotocol Label Switching

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on labels rather than network addresses.

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Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory

The Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) was established by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) in 2009.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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National research and education network

A national research and education network (NREN) is a specialised internet service provider dedicated to supporting the needs of the research and education communities within a country. AARNet and national research and education network are national research and education networks.

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Network layer

In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the network layer is layer 3.

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Network Time Protocol

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks.

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Nextgen Networks

Nextgen Networks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vocus Group.

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Optus

Singtel Optus Pty Limited (commonly referred to as Optus) is an Australian telecommunications company headquartered in Macquarie Park, a suburb in the Northern Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. AARNet and Optus are internet service providers of Australia.

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OzEmail

OzEmail was a major Internet service provider (ISP) in Australia, until it was acquired by iiNet on 28 February 2005. AARNet and OzEmail are internet service providers of Australia.

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Pegasus Networks

Pegasus Networks was the first public Internet service provider in Australia, commencing in June 1989 with local access, and moving to nationwide access from 14 September 1989. AARNet and Pegasus Networks are internet service providers of Australia.

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Perth

Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.

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Physical layer

In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the physical layer or layer 1 is the first and lowest layer: the layer most closely associated with the physical connection between devices.

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Point of presence

A point of presence (PoP) is an artificial demarcation point or network interface point between communicating entities.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Router (computing)

A router is a computer and networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks, including internetworks such as the global Internet.

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SABRENet

The South Australian Broadband Research & Education Network (SABRENet) is a fibre-optic broadband network linking the major research and education sites in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. AARNet and SABRENet are scientific organisations based in Australia.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Southern Cross Cable

The Southern Cross Cable is a trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables commissioned in 2000.

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Square Kilometre Array

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an intergovernmental international radio telescope project being built in Australia (low-frequency) and South Africa (mid-frequency).

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States and territories of Australia

The states and territories are the second level of government of Australia.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer.

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Synchrotron

A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path.

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Systems Network Architecture

Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is IBM's proprietary networking architecture, created in 1974.

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Telephone company

A telephone company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access.

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Telescope

A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.

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Telstra

Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets related products and services. AARNet and Telstra are internet service providers of Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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Townsville

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Universities Australia

Universities Australia (formerly the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee) is an organisation founded in Sydney in May 1920, which attempts to advance higher education through voluntary, cooperative and coordinated action.

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University of Hawaiʻi

The University of Hawaiʻi System (University of Hawaiʻi and popularly known as UH) is a public college and university system.

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University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne (also colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

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University of New South Wales Press

The University of New South Wales Press Ltd.

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Usenet

Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Virtual private network

Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not controlled by the entity aiming to implement the VPN) or need to be isolated (thus making the lower network invisible or not directly usable).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARNet

Also known as Australian Academic and Research Network.

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AARNet, the Glossary

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See also

Internet in Australia

Internet mirror services

Internet service providers of Australia

Technology companies established in 1998

References