Editing Packet switching (section)

====RCP====
RCP was an experimental network created by the [[Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones (France)|French PTT]]. It was used to gain experience with packet switching technology before the specification of the [[Transpac (data network)|TRANSPAC]] public network was frozen. RCP was a [[virtual circuit|virtual-circuit]] network in contrast to CYCLADES which was based on [[datagram]]s. RCP emphasised terminal-to-host and terminal-to-terminal connection; CYCLADES was concerned with host-to-host communication. RCP influenced the X.25 specification, which was deployed on TRANSPAC and other public data networks.<ref name="RCP">{{cite conference |first= R. |last= Després |author-link= Rémi Després |title= RCP, THE EXPERIMENTAL PACKET-SWITCHED DATA TRANSMISSION SERVICE OF THE FRENCH PTT |book-title= Proceedings of ICCC 74 |pages= 171–85 |year= 1974 |url= http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/RCPDEP/RD.html |conference=  |access-date= 2013-08-30 |archive-date= 2013-10-20 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131020142207/http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/RCPDEP/RD.html |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |first= A. |last= Bache |author2= Matras, Y. |title= Fundamental Choices in the Development of RCP, the Experimental Packet-Switching Data Transmission Service of the French PTT |book-title= Proceedings of ICCC 76 |pages= 311–16 |year= 1976 |url= http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/RCPBAC/RB.html |conference=  |access-date= 2013-08-30 |archive-date= 2013-10-20 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131020142631/http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/RCPBAC/RB.html |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |first= A. |last= Bache |author2= L. Guillou |author3= H. Layec |author4= B. Long |author5= Y. Matras |title= RCP, the Experimental Packet-Switched Data Transmission Service of the French PTT: History, Connections, Control |book-title= Proceedings of ICCC 76 |year= 1976 |url= http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/RCPHCC/RH.html |conference=  |access-date= 2013-08-30 |archive-date= 2013-10-20 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131020142520/http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/RCPHCC/RH.html |url-status= dead }}</ref>