Editing Message switching (section)

In [[telecommunications]], '''message switching''' involves messages routed in their entirety, one hop at a time. It evolved from [[circuit switching]] and was the precursor of [[packet switching]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|last=Davies|first=Donald Watts|url=https://archive.org/details/computernetworks00davi|title=Computer networks and their protocols|date=1979|publisher=Chichester, [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley|others=Internet Archive|pages=456–477|isbn=9780471997504}}</ref>

An example of message switching is email in which the message is sent through different intermediate servers to reach the mail server for storing. Unlike packet switching, the message is not divided into smaller units and sent independently over the network.