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Definitions of internet backbone:

• This fast network spanning the world from one major metropolitan area to another is provided by a handful of national Internet service providers (ISPs). These companies and organizations use connections running at approximately 45 MB per second (T3 lines) linked up at specified interconnection points called national access points. Local ISPs connect to this backbone through routers so that data can be carried though the backbone to its destination.
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• the set of all network connections established between the routing computers that move aggregated end-user IP traffic through the Internet. ...
  www.crtc.gc.ca/dcs/eng/glossary.htm
• The Internet backbone was the central network that linked all the parts of the Internet together. The term is now used as a loose term to describe the "core" of the current Internet.
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