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packet-switched network: Quick Facts

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Also Known As packet switching

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Packet-switched network compared with a circuit-switched network
ARPANET as of September 1974
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Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
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Robert Kahn
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Paul Baran
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Leonard Kleinrock
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