[ih] History of Tier 1 Networks

[Anthony Martin]

John Day via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> once said:
>> I would agree. In the US, AT&T showed little interest in packet
>> switching until very late in the game.

Leonard Kleinrock via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> once said:
> Early on, AT&T argued that packet switching would not work, and
> even if it did, they wanted nothing to do with it (notwithstanding
> the fact that their scientists did do some worthwhile mathematical
> modeling of it).

That isn't the whole story.

Sandy Fraser's work on packet switching at AT&T Bell Labs is notable.
Spider started in the early 70s. This led to Datakit in the early 80s
and commercialized by AT&T. It was still in use up to the early 2010s
supported by Datatek Corp. Many of Fraser's papers have at least one
reference to a Kleinrock paper.

Cheers,
  Anthony