[ih] Peter Salus / Baran's work

Dave Crocker dhc2 at dcrocker.net
Tue Jan 13 10:50:43 PST 2015


On 1/13/2015 10:21 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
> (D)ARPAnet initially had fixed routing

>From it's inception, the Arpanet had two, basic features:

   1.  Statistical multiplexing, which permitted fundamentally
       lower costs

   2.  Adaptive routing, which permitted fundamentally higher
       reliability

Packets and packet-switching were the underlying constructs that
enabling services to perform multiplexing and adaptive routing.

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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