packet-switching

基本解释

With its truncated missive 40 years ago today, ARPANET became the world's first operational packet-switching network.
從今天來看，通過40年前的該條被刪節的信息，ARPANET網成爲世界個首個運行的打包交換網絡。
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Instead, the creation of a worldwide packet-switching system was left to the Pentagon, which devised ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet.
取而代之的是，建造世界性數據包交換系統的工作畱給了五角大樓，他們設計了ARPANET——因特網的祖先。
In the years following ARPANET's deployment, other packet-switching networks were created, but they were internal networks that had only limited access to one other.
在ARPANET網開始運行的年代中，其他的打包交換網絡被創建，但它們僅僅是內部網絡，對其他網絡僅僅有限連接。
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Packet-switching works for a variety of engineering reasons, not because it somehow embodies in code the distilled wisdom of Aristotle, Rousseau, Locke, and Madison.
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So yes, the Internet has thrived in part because packet-switching works.
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Rather, the collective ingenuity of people such as Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems and subsequently Granite Systems) and Judy Estrin (a serial entrepreneur in the packet-switching business) was crucial to drive the technology through the standards bodies.
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Packet switching is a method of sending computer data on telephone lines that automatically divides the data into short pieces in order to send it and puts it together again when it is received.