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IEEE History Center http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/oral_histories/comsoc_oh.html.

Oral Histories that have been collected to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the IEEE Communications Society. A number of interesting interviews with pioneers in the field.

International Engineering Consortium: Web ProForum Tutorials http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/

More than 150 tutorials on communications and networking topics, with a focus on cutting edge technology. The tutorials vary in terms of their technical depth, but many are outstanding, and all are extremely well-written and very readable. This is the first place we look when looking for an on-line survey or tutorial.

Broadband: Bringing home the bits http://www.nap.edu/html/broadband

Extensive report on the importance and future of residential broadband access from the Computer Science And Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, January 2002

Internet Economics http://china.si.umich.edu/telecom/net-economics.html

Comprehensive index for resources relating to Internet economics, including regulation and pricing.

Webopedia http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/

Online dictionary for computer and Internet technology

traceroute.org http://www.traceroute.org/

As discussed in Section 1.6, Traceroute provides routes and packet delays between pairs of hosts in the Internet. This site gives you direct access to hundreds of source hosts from which you can trace routes to arbitrary destination hosts. Choose a country, a source host in that country, and any destination host -- then see how the packets weave their way through the Internet.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) http://www.ietf.org/

The IETF is an open international community concerned with the development and operation of the Internet and its architecture. The IETF was formally established by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), http://www.isi.edu/iab, in 1986. The IETF meets three times a year; much of its ongoing work is conducted via mailing lists by working groups. Typically, based upon previous IETF proceedings, working groups will convene at meetings to discuss the work of the IETF working groups. The IETF is administered by the Internet Society, http://www.isoc.org/, whose Web site contains lots of high-quality, Internet-related material.

Henning Schulzrinne's Internet Technical Resources http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/internet

Henning Schulzrinne has an extensive - although not always current - index of online resources for the Internet.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) http://www.acm.org/

A major international professional society that has technical conferences, magazines, and journals in the networking area. The ACM Special Interest Group in Data Communications (SIGCOMM), http://www.acm.org/sigcomm, is the group within this body whose efforts are most closely related to networking

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) http://www.ieee.org/

The other major international professional society that has technical conferences, magazines, and journals in the networking area. The IEEE Communications Society, http://www.comsoc.org/, and the IEEE Computer Society, http://www.computer.org/, are the groups within this body whose efforts are most closely related to networking.

The SETI@home Project http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

As discussed in Section 1.2, the SETI@home project is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. You can download the SETI program directly from this site.

Nerds 2.0.1 A Brief History of the Internet http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1

This is the Web site for the highly entertaining and informative PBS video on the history of the Internet. The PBS video, Triumph of the Nerds, about the history of personal computers, is also recommended.

Leonard Kleinrock's Personal History of the Internet http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html

Professor Leonard Kleinrock made numerous important contributions to Internet technology and to the field of computer networking. This page provides his own interesting and highly entertaining description of the early history of the Internet.

The DSL Forum http://www.dslforum.org/

DSL Forum is a consortium of nearly 250 leading industry players covering telecommunications, equipment, computing, networking and service provider companies. The site is rich in information about developments in digital subscriber loop and broadband access to the home.

Cable-modems.org http://www.cable-modems.org/

This site has many tutorials on cable modems, hybrid fiber-coax, and related topics. Also includes reviews of cable modem products.