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Circuit Switching verse Packet Switching
circuit switch vs packet switchedWho owns the Internet?
Some links that help to answer that question
Who owns the Internet ver1
A World of Ends The Net is a world of ends. You're at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends. In other words, there is no central controlling authority.
Who controls the Internet
Who owns the Internet ver2
Node Destruction (Cold War Strategies)
indicates network performance and the (if) probability
of destruction for each separate node.
conventional hardware failure, where failures would
be randomly distributed through the network, would be regular attack,
(Not nuclear).
But, if the disturbance
were caused by enemy attack, the possible "worst cases" must be
considered.
TRANSLATION - If some of your network gets hit by a Nuclear
Missile, 40 percent of you network might dissappear example diagram
Paul Baran On Distributed
Communications