NIELIT 2016 DEC Scientist B (CS) - Section B: 9

Question

The first Network:

• A. ARPANET.
• B. NFSNET.
• C. CNNET.
• D. ASAPNET.

Comments

Option A is correct.

Answer 1

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.

So A is correct.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

Answer 2

Access to the ARPANET was expanded in 1981, when the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the Computer Science Network (CSNET). In the early 1980s, the NSF funded the establishment of national supercomputing centers at several universities, and provided network access and network interconnectivity with the NSFNET project in 1986. The ARPANET was formally decommissioned in 1990, after partnerships with the telecommunication and computer industry had assured private sector expansion and future commercialization of an expanded world-wide network, known as the internet