Local, national and international criminal networks help finance an interconnected network of civil and international wars.

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The Internet is now an interconnected, global network of things: computers, devices, sensors, applications, etc.

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Gates was one of many to envision a vast network of interconnected machines.

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In this scenario, young people could produce and receive excellent programming via a network of interconnected school and community based radio.

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In addition we have seen the rise of huge data centers with thousands of individual servers containing two or more of these processors (each with two to six cores), but they are interconnected through switches and network interface cards that have not scaled along with the processor performance.

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The answer is social computing, which views a company not as a static org chart and a number of interconnected process flows but rather as a social network with ad-hoc and ever changing relationships and interactions.

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There is also mounting evidence to support the existence of a "default network" in the brain - a set of interconnected areas responsible for routine, passive mental processes.

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Launched in April, the 1, 000-node network is anchored by two redundant 3Com CoreBuilder 9000 switches interconnected by dual 1Gbps Gigabit Ethernet-trunked connections.

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