### scheme | network:

Optical network
* are faster and provide more capacity than their electrical counterparts
  - the enablers for continued growth of the Internet infrastructure
* mean speed and capacity.
* transmit voice, data, and video traffic over fiber cables using light streams.
* use beams of light, rather than electrons, to carry data
  - light pulses to transmit data instead of electrons

Private network
* comprise numbers of private lines.
* give big banks or large corporations a competitive edge.
* network of communicationschannels confined to the use of one customer.

Reticulation
* is about thinking
  - formations
  - the wrinkling of the film emultion into a wetlike pattern
* process that helps ensure that the planned lesson can be implemented as scheduled.

Semantic network
* Most semantic networks contain one to several hundred concepts.
* represent inheritance.
* store multiple definitions for each word they contain.

Snood
* are a cross between a soft bag, a hairnet and a hat of sorts
  - tubes of fabric with elastic at both ends
* can be addictive.

### scheme | network:

Social network
* Establishing social networks key factor in successful ageing.
* Some social networks are held together by the ties of religion.
  * Some social networks are held together by the ties of religion. A mosque, church or temple is almost always a center of a social network, and often that network has a name and an identity of its own that is not that of the religious organization.
* are a crucial component of a region's economic and political health
  - an important determinant of labour migration
  - as much a reality in high-tech fields as in other fields
  - central to job search and employment security in new media
  - films
  - graphical models of relationships between groups of people
  - imperative to happiness
* are important as buffers to increase immunity to stress
  - to the urban poor as a resource for coping with depravity
  - naturally dependent on the type of neighbourhood
* can increase productivity by reducing the costs of doing business.
* do exist.
* grow, shift, dissolve and change.
* have a pattern, and the underlying structure is the same across all cultures.
* involve human relations of various kinds.
* play a key role in the various phases of migration and return migration.

Telecom network
* are the essential vehicles that enable location services.
* use circuit switches that incur a delay when making connections.

Telecommunications network
* are by far the largest man-made system ever created.
* constitute the critical infrastructure of the information age.
* provide the foundation upon which electronic commerce is based.

Tulle
* is pink irridescent with hearts.
* is the classic fabric for bridal veils
  - stuff that's put under wedding gowns to help the skirts stand out

Wired network
* are particularly vulnerable to eavesdropping.
* require cables to be laid
  - some type of physical cabling to interconnect devices
* use cables to connect the different machines together.
+ Wireless LAN, Benefits of Wireless LANs: Computer networking
  * This box can handle a varying number of connections at the same time. Wired networks require cables to be laid. This can be difficult for certain places.