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Believing their country to be technologically underdeveloped, French politicians made sweeping measures to grow the country's computing capacities, investing in government and educational institutions.<ref name="Fifth Man">http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21590765-louis-pouzin-helped-create-internet-now-he-campaigning-ensure-its#The Internet's Fifth Man. The Economist. 30 Nov 2013</ref>

Believing their country to be technologically underdeveloped, French politicians made sweeping measures to grow the country's computing capacities, investing in government and educational institutions.<ref name="Fifth Man">http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21590765-louis-pouzin-helped-create-internet-now-he-campaigning-ensure-its#The Internet's Fifth Man. The Economist. 30 Nov 2013</ref>

Under government sponsorship, Louis Pouzin and others visited U.S. universities to learn more about ARPANET and packet switching. Pouzin thought ARPANET to be overly-complex and burdensome and decided to refine the packet process by individually labeling and sending each packet, not necessarily in sequential order and not necessarily with a connection between sender and receiver. <ref name="Cyclades">http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/CYCLB.html Presentation and Major Design Aspects of the CYCLADES Computer Network. NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computer Communication Networks, University of Sussex, held in 1973. Nov 1973. Retrieved 07 Apr 2015</ref> The receiving computer would piece together the individual packets, or datagram. While this network was certainly seen as the European competitor to ARPANET, its creation informed many Internet innovators including [[Vint Cerf]] and [[Bob Kahn]].<ref name="Fifth Man"/>

Under government sponsorship, Louis Pouzin and others visited U.S. universities to learn more about ARPANET and packet switching. Pouzin thought ARPANET to be overly-complex and burdensome and decided to refine the packet process by individually labeling and sending each packet, not necessarily in sequential order and not necessarily with a connection between sender and receiver. <ref name="Cyclades">http://rogerdmoore.ca/PS/CYCLB.html Presentation and Major Design Aspects of the CYCLADES Computer Network. NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computer Communication Networks, University of Sussex, held in 1973. Nov 1973. Retrieved 07 Apr 2015</ref> The receiving computer would piece together the individual packets, or datagram. While this network was certainly seen as the European competitor to ARPANET, its creation informed many U.S. Internet innovators including [[Vint Cerf]] and [[Bob Kahn]].<ref name="Fifth Man"/>

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[[File:Cyclades Nodes.png|thumb|]]

In the late 1970s the French government withdrew its funding and disbanded Pouzin's team. It decided to back other networks that relied on circuit sharing, rather than the newer, riskier packet sharing. Pouzin's work went beyond CYCLADES, informing a class of American academics who went on to develop some of the essential structures of the internet.<ref name="Fifth Man"/>

In the late 1970s the French government withdrew its funding and disbanded Pouzin's team. It decided to back other networks that relied on circuit sharing, rather than the newer, riskier packet sharing. Pouzin's work went beyond CYCLADES, informing a class of American academics who went on to develop some of the essential structures of the internet.<ref name="Fifth Man"/>

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