Internet: Backbone The first Internet backbone was invented to assist in the attempt to share supercomputers. The U.S. government realized that supercomputing was crucial to advances in science, defense, and economic competitiveness but the budget for...

The Internet backbone refers to the main "trunk" connections of the Internet. It is made up of a large collection of interconnected commercial, government, academic and other high-capacity data routes and core routers that carry data across the...

MCI Communications Corp. threw regulators a backbone yesterday. The District-based telecommunications giant, hoping to ease concerns that its pending acquisition by WorldCom Inc. would concentrate Internet power, announced it would sell its Internet "backbone" facilities for $625 million to Britain's Cable & Wireless...

Scholars have neglected the privatization of the Internet's backbone network, despite the obvious significance of the U.S. government turning control of a powerful new communication technology over to the private sector. This article analyzes the transition from a government-sponsored backbone network to multiple commercially...

United Online is on the fast track of Internet access.In November the company began began reselling Verizon Communications' VZ high-speed Internet access services for the first time under the NetZero brand in addition to the company's slower dial-up service.United UNTD struck again earlier this month,...