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SITA, a consortium of international airlines, introduced their packet-switched High Level Network in 1969, the same year Arpanet became operational.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I Need Some Help on Alternative Energy Subsidies 2010
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Currently, a huge number of data-using subscribers can drive up costs over the traditional packet-switched networks in use today.
Like Facebook or Google, Wireless Carriers Need to Scale 2009
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The same thing goes for GSM/UMTS operators like AT&T and T-Mobile — circuit-switched radio for voice, packet-switched for data.
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It is tempting to think of the Internet's success as being technologically determined--the triumph of packet-switched networks over circuit-switched networks.
Internet Governance, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A packet-switched satellite network (Satnet) was developed.
How the Web Was Won Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb 2008
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And it demonstrated that it was possible to get heterogeneous computers to talk to each other through a single common packet-switched net.
How the Web Was Won Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb 2008
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Orbita - a Russian television service; also the trade name of a packet-switched digital telephone network.
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When the kid pressed the button a bunch of balls propelled by air shot through the tubes randomly and arrived at the other end in a different order, demostrating a packet-switched network.
Boing Boing 2006
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What Bob Kahn and I did was to demonstrate that with a different set of protocols you could get an infinite number of — well, infinite is not true, but an arbitrarily large number of — different heterogeneous packet-switched nets to interconnect with each other as if it was all one big giant network.
How the Web Was Won Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb 2008
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And the original research on Internet was conducted at the University of Hawaii (their need for communicating between small islands created the idea of a packet-switched communication).
OpEdNews - Diary: Teach Me: Getting Rid of the Dept of Education? 2007
thebighenry commented on the word packet-switched
(adj) : processed via a network technology that breaks up a message into small packets for transmission.
June 7, 2008