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Message switching -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In ((often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically) telecommunications, message switching was the precursor of (additional info and facts about packet switching) packet switching, where messages were routed in their entirety, one hop at a time. |
| | Message switching systems are nowadays mostly implemented over packet-switched or circuit-switched data networks. |
| | ((computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in) E-mail is another example of a message switching system. |
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