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Network Access Points (NAPs)

What is a network access point? Network access points are places which provide access to national and global networking traffic. Remember that network access point was an access method that was widely used before they were replaced by Internet Exchange Points (IXP s). Why need network access points? Think that you want to send some data to a friend who is living about 500km away from you. How would you send the data to your friend. How can you connect to the friend and vice versa? The most common method to do this is to connect to your ISP (Internet Service Provider) and send the data and on the receiving end the friend can receive the data from the same ISP or from a different ISP. If you are on one network and the friend is on another network (two different ISP s) how can you connect? That is where you need network access points. Network access points, as mentioned earlier in this blog post, are places which provide access to national and global networ
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