Labels:airplane | awning | bench | fence | grass | hakham | plant | reckoner | sky | tree OCR: THE INTERNET Inte rnet Technolo How does data travel over the Internet? To under stand how you can use the Internet to access information from computer that IS thousands of miles away, , it is useful to have little background on the Internet communications network. The cables, wires and satellites that carry Internet data form an interlinked communica ations network Data traveling from one Internet computer to another transmitted from one link in the network to another along the best possible route If some links are overloaded or temporarily tno of service the data can be routed through different links. The major Internet communica ations links are called the Internet backbone Figure E-8 illustrates the Internet backbone in the continental United States and shows for example that data trav ...
