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		cachius 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TCP, the workhorse of the internet How could a circuit switched network look like at today’s scale?

bobmcnamara 4 months ago | [–]

Joke: TCP, but you RST the connection whenever a packet drops.

musicale 5 months ago | [–]

The optical layer is still circuit-switched.

Also MPLS is basically a virtual circuit network.

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