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Concept

Packet switching

Way of sending data through a network in separate blocks, or packets, each routed on its own and reassembled at the destination.

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  • Paul Baran Scholarship & press 1

    Donald Davies in Britain devised a very similar system independently; his word, packets, is the term that was adopted.

led to

  • ARPANET Scholarship & press 2

    ARPANET's planners drew on packet-switching work done in parallel at MIT, at RAND and at Britain's National Physical Laboratory.

Proof 2 sources
  1. NIHF Inductee Paul Baran, Who Invented Packet Switching, National Inventors Hall of Fame. Scholarship & press
    Paul Baran developed a fundamental concept behind today's advanced communications networking systems: digital packet switching.
  2. A Brief History of the Internet, Internet Society, 1997. Scholarship & press
    Internet was based on the idea that there would be multiple independent networks of rather arbitrary design, beginning with the ARPANET as the pioneering packet switching network
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