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packet-switching - definition and meaning
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
The realization of their concepts came to be known as packet-switching .
Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001
Baran is best known for the idea of "packet-switching ," in which data is bundled into small packages and sent through a network.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011
Like you're missing the meaningful differences between packet- and circuit-switching and how the telecom companies tried their hardest to kill packet-switching by embracing X.25.
History of the Internet on Vimeo 2010
The brilliant ideas behind the internet were packet-switching statistical multiplexing, as opposed to time-division-multiplexing and circuit-switching and completely open standards.
History of the Internet on Vimeo 2010
If you have a question none of them can answer, maybe it starts a kind of social packet-switching , where they in turn pass it on to some of their friends.
How to Succeed at Becoming Borg (Without Really Trying) 2006
So you might think: Ok, I'll start by designing a general packet-switching system to transfer data across an interlinked network of computers, with routing algorithms to work out the best paths, retransmission systems to deal with failures, and so on.
Snell-Pym » 2008 » February 2008
So you might think: Ok, I'll start by designing a general packet-switching system to transfer data across an interlinked network of computers, with routing algorithms to work out the best paths, retransmission systems to deal with failures, and so on.
Snell-Pym » Generalisation 2008
Egery, a telematics joint venture between Vivendi and PSA Peugeot Citroen (it was originally called Wappi, which CEO Jean-Marc Monguillet now says is "counterproductive") wants to use a new "packet-switching " system called GPRS, which Monguillet says is "vital" to the venture's success.
The Wired Road Ahead 2008
It gets worse: How many of those who gathered in 1995 had more than the vaguest notion of the threat that packet-switching and Internet protocol telephony would soon pose to traditional telcos?
Telecom's Restless Giants 2008
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