Catenet

Furthermore, it is assumed that each catenet gateway can report a certain minimum amount of status information to an internetwork monitoring center for the purpose of identifying and isolating catenet failures, collecting minimal performance statistics and so on.

A gateway interconnects heterogeneous networks or catenets both physically and logically.

The TCP connections have been maintained open over the catenet with reliable data transfer not just for seconds or minutes but for many hours or even days.

It is of great importance to have realistic models for an end to end delay analysis in such heterogeneous catenet environments.

Instead, each ring within a source routed catenet is assigned a unique 12 bit ring number, allowing for a maximum of 4,096 rings in a single catenet. (Don’t worry; no source routed catenet has ever approached this limit, or likely ever will.)

The Internet can be used for interconnecting campus network to campus network, connecting campus networks to sources of public information, and connecting between stations inside and outside the catenet. / The extension of the catenet to global distances provides the opportunity for enterprise stations to address the stations (clients or servers) in the catenet or stations anywhere within the millions of users in the Internet community.