Topics similar to or like Packet switching

Group of computers that use a set of common communication protocols over digital interconnections for the purpose of sharing resources located on or provided by the network nodes. The interconnections between nodes are formed from a broad spectrum of telecommunication network technologies, based on physically wired, optical, and wireless radio-frequency methods that may be arranged in a variety of network topologies. Wikipedia

The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts to build and interconnect computer networks that arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France. Emerging discipline in the late 1950s that began to consider time-sharing between computer users, and later, the possibility of achieving this over wide area networks. Wikipedia

Formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. Also known as the payload. Wikipedia

Basic transfer unit associated with a packet-switched network. Datagrams are typically structured in header and payload sections. Wikipedia

Local area computer network operated by a team from the National Physical Laboratory in London that pioneered the concept of packet switching. Based on designs first proposed by Donald Davies in 1965, elements of the first version of the network, the Mark I, became operational during 1969 then fully operational in 1970, and the Mark II version operated from 1973 until 1986. Wikipedia

The first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. Wikipedia