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Synchronous Optical NETwork

Synchronous Optical NETwork definition - hacker
A North American high-speed baseband digital transport standard specifying incrementally increasing data stream rates for movement across digital optical links. Most of the InternetÂ’s backbone is built using the SONET standard.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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