The traditional backbone network goes over the globe to provide interconnectivity to the remote hubs.
This reduces network traffic on the main backbone network.
The underpinnings of large backbone networks are usually optical channels that cannot be quickly switched.
The location table includes future changes in the backbone network until the end of 2013.
A serial backbone is the simplest kind of backbone network.
One example of a backbone network is the Internet backbone.
The company says the backbone network it assembled by buying capacity from existing companies matches Excite@Home's in terms of performance.
Unless a government invests in or maintains backbone networks the market will not function.
For example, a large company might implement a backbone network to connect departments that are located around the world.
Normally, the backbone network's capacity is greater than that of the individual networks connected to it.