{"id":2531,"date":"2011-07-28T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/advanced-research-projects-agency-network\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T08:32:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T08:32:36","slug":"advanced-research-projects-agency-network","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/2381\/advanced-research-projects-agency-network-arpanet","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Research Projects Agency Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_advanced_research_projects_agency_network_mean\">What Does Advanced Research Projects Agency Network Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) is a predecessor to the modern Internet. It was conceptualized in the 1950s, when computer scientists needed something better than the then available but unreliable switching nodes and network links.<\/p>\n<p>There were also only a limited number of large, powerful research computers, and researchers with access were separated geographically. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) commissioned the development of an advanced and reliable way to connect these computers through a newly devised packet switching network, which was known as ARPANET.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_advanced_research_projects_agency_network\">Techopedia Explains Advanced Research Projects Agency Network<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The ARPANET was a project funded by the U.S. government during the Cold War, in order to build a robust and reliable communications network. This was done by connecting various computers that could simultaneously communicate in a network that would not go down and continue running when a single node was taken out.<\/p>\n<p>The initial groundwork for a computer network was laid by Joseph C. R. Licklider of Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN). Licklider became the head of the behavioral sciences and command and control programs at ARPA in October 1963. He then convinced Ivan Sutherland and Bob Taylor to work on this concept. In his office, Bob Taylor had three computer terminals connected to the three ARPA-sponsored computers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The System Development Corporation (SDC) Q-32 at Santa Monica<\/li>\n<li>Project Genie at the University of California, Berkeley<\/li>\n<li>Multics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Taylor needed to talk to someone at another computer, he would transfer to a different terminal for each connection. This was frustrating and led to the concept of one terminal\/computer connected to a number of other terminals. This idea paved the way for the ARPANET and, eventually, the modern Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Baran of Rand Corporation concluded that the strongest kind of network would be a packet switched network that would use any available communication line, regardless of the status of other lines. The ARPANET originally connected four computers, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Honeywell DDP 516 computer at University of California, Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>An SDS-940 computer at the Stanford Research Institute<\/li>\n<li>An IBM 360\/75 at University of California, Santa Barbara<\/li>\n<li>A DEC PDP-10 at the University of Utah<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Compatibility issues surfaces as more computers were connected to the network. 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