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Glossary of Data Communications Terms
Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.
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Term:
BITNET
Definition:
A cooperative computer network interconnecting over 2,300
academic and research institutions in 32 countries.
Originally based on IBM's RSCS networking protocol, BITNET
supports mail, mailing lists, and file transfer. Now
merged with CSNET and running the RSCS protocol over TCP/IP
protocol (BITNET II), the network will be called Computer
Research and Education Network (CREN). An academic
computer network that provides interactive electronic mail
and file transfer services, using a store-and-forward
protocol, based on IBM Network Job Entry protocols.
Bitnet-II encapsulates the Bitnet protocol within IP
packets and depends on the Internet to route them.
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