Editing Packet switching (section)

====AUSTPAC====
[[AUSTPAC]] was an Australian public X.25 network operated by [[Telstra]]. Established by Telstra's predecessor Telecom Australia in the early 1980s, AUSTPAC was Australia's first public packet-switched data network and supported applications such as on-line betting, financial applications—the [[Australian Tax Office]] made use of AUSTPAC—and remote terminal access to academic institutions, who maintained their connections to AUSTPAC up until the mid-late 1990s in some cases. Access was via a dial-up terminal to a [[Packet Assembler/Disassembler|PAD]], or, by linking a permanent X.25 node to the network.<ref name="Andrew Colley">{{cite web | url=https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/telstra-drops-austpac-reaches-for-finance-market/ | title=Telstra drops Austpac; reaches for finance market | date=28 January 2004 | access-date=21 December 2018 | author= Andrew Colley| website=[[ZDNet]] }}</ref>