An institution that provides access to the Internet in some form, usually for money. The Internet Society was created in 1992 and is a global organization responsible for the internetworking technologies and applications of the Internet. Though its principal purpose is to encourage the development and availability of the Internet, it is in turn responsible for the further development of the standards and protocols that allow the Internet to function. Internet Telephony Internet telephony is the conversion of analog speech signals used on current telephone systems into digital data, allowing calls to be sent over the Internet , bypassing long distance charges. While the Internet was first devised as a way of transmitting data , it is now being used to make voice calls.
Internet telephony is projected to explode as the cost of Internet connections plummet.
An interconnection of two or more networks , usually local area networks enabling data can pass between computers on the different networks as though they were on one network. This requires some kind of router or gateway . This can be accomplished through adherence to certain standards or the provision of specialized technical accommodations. Compare with compiler . An IRQ is a unique number between two and fifteen that is assigned to a hardware peripheral in a computer.