Using the arm, the astronaut lifted the platform's fifth truss, or backbone, segment into place.
CDNs can be thought of as repeaters, stationed strategically to help manage the Internet traffic by avoiding the backbone or by finding intelligent routes through it.
"TECS really is the backbone or the mainframe, the real operating system for Customs and Border Protection that has the information from other law enforcement agencies, " said Kathy Kraninger, a former Homeland Security official and now a security consultant.
The Internet needs more capacity, or bandwidth, both in its main backbone and in its connections to schools, houses and offices.
Companies that have an expertise in technology, for example, can collaborate with non-profits or social entrepreneurs to provide the infrastructure backbone that turn their ideas into reality.
The Kensington Laptop Locking Station is built with an all steel backbone that resistants cutting, drilling or prying.
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Should some of the roughly 300 transformers that are the backbone of our electrical grid be damaged or destroyed, the interruption to the electrical grid will not be brief.
Commissioner Terri Mascherin, a Chicago attorney, said the effort "could have shown a little more backbone" in repealing laws and statutes that were archaic or of questionable constitutionality.
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The singer uses this as a musical backbone to render the original composition into a qawwali, khayal or thumri (styles of singing).
Conversely, Amazon EC2 is always connected to the backbone of the internet where round-trip latency is 5 milliseconds or less to most web sites rather than the 100 milliseconds seen over wireless connections.
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