Editing Packet switching (section)

====EPSS====
The Experimental Packet Switched Service (EPSS) was an experiment of the UK [[Post Office Telecommunications]]. It was the first [[public data network]] in the UK when it began operating in 1976.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Davies|editor1-first=Howard|editor2-last=Bressan|editor2-first=Beatrice|title=A history of international research networking: the people who made it happen|date=2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-3527327102|page=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DN-t8MpZ0-wC&pg=PA2}}</ref> [[Ferranti]] supplied the hardware and software. The handling of link control messages (acknowledgements and flow control) was different from that of most other networks.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Ed|last2=Miller|first2=Chris|last3=Norton|first3=Jim|title=Packet Switching: The first steps on the road to the information society|url=https://www.npl.co.uk/getattachment/about-us/History/Famous-faces/Donald-Davies/UK-role-in-Packet-Switching-(1).pdf.aspx|journal=}}</ref><ref>{{cite conference
|first= Roy D.
|last= Bright
|author2= Smith, Michael A.
|title= EXPERIMENTAL PACKET SWITCHING PROJECT OF THE UK POST OFFICE
|book-title= Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computer Communication Networks
|publisher= Noordhoff International Publishing
|location= Sussex, United Kingdom
|year= 1973
|pages= 435–44
|url= http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/EPSSB.html
|conference= 
|access-date= 2013-08-30
|archive-date= 2013-10-20
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131020142503/http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/EPSSB.html
|url-status= dead
}}</ref><ref>{{cite conference
|first= DJ
|last= Pearson
|author2= Wilkin, D
|title= Some Design Aspects of a public packet switching network
|book-title= Proceedings of the 2nd ICCC 74
|pages= 199–213
|year= 1974
|url= http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/EPSSFer/EF.html
|conference= 
|access-date= 2013-08-30
|archive-date= 2013-10-20
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131020142152/http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/EPSSFer/EF.html
|url-status= dead
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