14 December 2013

Cicada

Babbage makes a video visit to Louis Pouzin, deviser of the Cigale packet-switched network. Cigale underlay the experimental Cyclades network, a would-be rival to ARPANET. Although Cyclades went away in the 1970s, Pouzin's datagram concepts found their way into Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn's designs for TCP.

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