Language lab Oct 31, 2009
That was the research network commissioned by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) to see whether computer-to-computer communications could be made faster, more reliable and more robust by using the novel technique of packet switching instead of the more conventional circuit switched networks of the day. Instead of connecting computers rather as telephone exchanges work, using switches to set up an electric circuit over which data could be sent, packet switching... (BBC News -- Technology)
Celebrating 40 years of the net Oct 30, 2009
The fundamental technological idea that made it work, known as packet switching, was demonstrated on that October evening. The motivation for developing packet switching also had a financial element ... The inspiration for packet switching partly came from the Post Office. (BBC News -- Technology)
Tech.view: The internet at forty Sep 5, 2009
Packet switching slices messages (whether text, graphics, audio or video) into suitably sized blocks of data, like a series of letters in the mail ... As a bonus, packet switching ensures that, thanks to the many different routes individual packets can take, the message will always get through even if it has to wait for errant packets that have taken the long way round. (The Economist)
NEC Launches Sale of MPLS-TP Next Generation Packet Transport Device Sep 4, 2009
(1) MPLS-TP: Multi-Protocol Label Switching-Transport ProfileThe MPLS is a packet switching method standardized under the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). The MPLS-TP formed through cooperation between the IETF and ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector) in order to advance standards applicable to transport networks. (JCN Network, Japan)
UPDATE: Internet Evolution Launches IE Radio with craigslist's Founder Craig Newmark Aug 13, 2009
Internet Evolution () hosts more than 190 world-famous Internet experts -- such as Kevin Mitnick, once the most-wanted computer hacker in the world; Dr. Lawrence Roberts, inventor of packet switching, and one of the world's foremost authorities on telecom network architectures; Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google -- all of whom are addressing today's critical socio-economic issues within its ThinkerNet blogosphere. In March 2009, Internet Evolution won three... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
With links, browsers Web is born Aug 11, 2009
That led to the development of packet switching and the distributed nature of the network itself, which make the modern Internet efficient and fault-tolerant. But the Internet in the late 1980s was, for the most part, still text based. (Missoulian, MT)
Packet switching reroutes Web traffic Aug 4, 2009
As I finished last week s column on packet switching, a teachable moment took place (well, more of a writable moment ), and it serves to illuminate another aspect of the Internet that remains the same from the early days. Last week, I wrote that packet switching was invented early on by ARPANET in order to make networking over wide areas possible ... Packet switching works well in conjunction with the millions of computers and routers and cables that make up the Internet. (Missoulian, MT)
TECHNOLOGY - Packet switching enables Internet Jul 28, 2009
That was called packet switching, and it remains the basic form of communication of today s Internet. Packet switching protocols take an e-mail or a Web page and break it into hundreds or sometimes thousands of pieces - or packets - which are all transmitted independently over the network ... Packet switching is something like mailing a bunch of postcards with one sentence on each, rather than a single long letter. (Missoulian, MT)
Column: Early days of the Internet Jul 20, 2009
So ARPANET developed packet switching, that standard system of computer communication that continues to this day ... More on ARPANET and packet switching. (Missoulian, MT)
Democracys biggest ever IT project is 'Unique ID' Jul 10, 2009
Thirty years ago, even as the Ayatollah led the overthrow of the Shah, a young engineer at the US Department of Defenses Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) by the name of Vint Cerf, was perfecting packet switching protocols that would form the basis of the world wide web. A few years ago, I interviewed Cerf, often referred to as one of the Fathers of the Internet , at the Hyderabad campus of Google, where he is now a board member and Chief Internet Evangelist. (India Times)
OFC/NFOEC features breakthroughs in next-generation ethernet, metamaterials, networks Mar 18, 2009
First true optical packet switching ... The result, to be announced at OFC/NFOEC, is the first true high-capacity optical packet switching system. (EurekAlert!)
Accelerating the modern age Feb 7, 2009
In 1982 Kenneth Baker, the technology minister, paid tribute to Donald Davies' work on packet switching during a visit to NPL. ... On 5 August 1968 Dr Davies gave the first public presentation of work he had been doing on a method of moving data around computer networks called "packet switching" ... Davies and his colleagues went further than just establishing the concept for packet switching - they also build the first computer networks and proved their ideas could work. (BBC News -- Technology)
