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 System Grids are made up of all planetary Grids and other local Grids within a star’s gravity well and connected by mass, laser, ra-dio, and other transceivers. As such, the sys-tem Grid is “The” Grid within that system. If a planetary or national Grid is the only Grid in a system, it is by default the system Grid.
-==== LOCAL GRIDS ====
-Local Grids or planetary Grids, sometimes di-vided into state or national Grids, are defined primarily by jurisdiction or ownership. It is at the local level that the vast majority of the in-frastructure of the Grid is found. Everything above this level is made up from connected local Grids, and everything below this level comes together to create the local Grids.
-The local Grids are where all of the work, all of the fun, all of the action of the Grid takes place. While the capacities and pro-tocols of individual Grids can vary wildly, all Grids include separate regions devoted to the major data formats: data, comm, virtuality, and DV. Each of these subnets is interlaced with the others and partially compatible with them. These regions, or sectors, can be orga-nized or interfaced differently across different Grids, and some Grids include additional sec-tors devoted to special purposes and func-tions. Every Grid, however, includes sectors optimized to handle the four basic infor-mation formats.
-The comm sector provides text, voice, and video messaging services for anyone with the appropriate hardware. Digital wiretap-ping, interception of transmissions, and shad-ow form relay all use comm sector domains and hardware, which make up the backbone of the Grid. In a sense, the comm sector forms the sewers, phone lines, and cable systems of the Grid.
-The data sector is the Grid’s infor-mation warehouse. Like a giant library, the data sector stores everything from patents to novels, political analysis to sports statistics, census data to schematics for technology ob-solete through bleeding edge. This is usually the largest sector of any Grid and tends to be cluttered and crowded. A set of protocols called the Alexandrine Reform were imple-mented during the Fusion age to bring some sense of order to the cataloguing and organi-zation of data sectors. Even so, much of the information found in any data sector is worth-less junk, garbage dumped onto the Grid by cranks, salespeople, and amateurs.
-The virtuality sector features graphics-heavy, rendered-on-the-fly, continuously up-dated real-time environments. Virtual settings of all kinds are found here, from the seediest data fringes to the most advanced scientific simulations.
-Finally, the DV sector encompasses vid-eo, holo, and audio material of every sort. It is heaven for the committed couch potato, but offers little in the way of useful data for any purpose other than entertainment and pas-sive education.
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