packet-switching

基本解释

With its truncated missive 40 years ago today, ARPANET became the world's first operational packet-switching network.
从今天来看，通过40年前的该条被删节的信息，ARPANET网成为世界个首个运行的打包交换网络。
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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，建造世界性数据包交换系统的工作留给了五角大楼，他们设计了ARPANET——因特网的祖先。
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网开始运行的年代中，其他的打包交换网络被创建，但它们仅仅是内部网络，对其他网络仅仅有限连接。
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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.