THE COMPUTER NETWORKING REFERENCE · SINCE 2006
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CYCLADES: The French Network That Made Failure Part of the Plan
A French research network asked a radical question in the 1970s: who should recover when a packet disappears? CYCLADES helped put the answer at the endpoints.
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