NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Packet Switching, Transmission Control Protocol, Circuit Switching
25 Nov 2017
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Unit 16: communications technologies, part iii: internet history: characteristics of the internet. Studying history of internet shows us again how users shape technological systems and also allows us to explore many current and important issues of management and control such as internet privacy and cybercrime. Computers communicate with each other by using machine language standards such as tcp/ip protocol. Messages are transmitted through packet-switching (see below), whereby information (e. g. a file) is broken up into smaller sections (digital packets) that contain a common set of headers that provide information about the packet"s final destination and contents. Packet-switching technology: idea of computer networking started in 1960s and was greatly aided by work of arpa, packet switching advancements happened within the united states department of. 1960s in two different parts of the world by two different men (paul baran in us and. Arpanet more: many more people were interested in using this system.
