0 the connection of two or more computer networks so that data can pass between them as if they were one network:
internetworking products/software/technology
The name was chosen to emphasize that this was designed to be a slow, but very inexpensive internetworking system, and forestall high-performance comparison questions such as how fast is it?
The internet layer derives its name from its function of forming an internet (uncapitalized), or facilitating internetworking, which is the concept of connecting multiple networks with each other through gateways.
The availability of affordable personal computers led to the first popular wave of internetworking with the first bulletin board systems.
Some control infrastructure offered services to coordinate via client-server interactions the internetworking of different components.
