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... Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) organized a Symposium on Very High Speed Information
Networks as the first in a projected series of meetings on Advanced
Computer Technologies, thus ACT ONE. The time was chosen to also
commemorate the 20th anniversary of the installation of the first
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We've gathered here for two days to examine and debate
And reflect on data networks and as well to celebrate.
To recognize the leaders and recount the path we took.
We'll begin with how it happened; for it's time to take a look.
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... come to store-and-forward in the queues a while and then are
heard no more. 'Tis a network waiting to be switched!
To switch ...
... switch? That is the question. Whether
'tis wiser in the net to suffer the store and forward of
stochastic networks or to raise up circuits against a sea
of packets and, by dedication, serve them.
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