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Telenet was an American commercial packet switched network which went into service in 1974.〔C. J. P. Moschovitis, H. Poole, T. Schuyler, T. M. Senft, ''History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843 to the Present'', p. 79-80 (The Moschovitis Group, Inc 1999)〕 It was the first packet-switched network service that was available to the general public.〔Stephen Segaller, ''NERDS 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet'', p. 115 (TV Books Publisher 1998)〕 Various commercial and government interests paid monthly fees for dedicated lines connecting their computers and local networks to this backbone network. Free public dialup access to Telenet, for those who wished to access these systems, was provided in hundreds of cities throughout the United States. The original founding company, Telenet Inc., was established by Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) and recruited Larry Roberts (former head of the ARPANet) as President of the company, and Barry Wessler. GTE acquired Telenet in 1979. It was later acquired by Sprint and called "Sprintnet". Sprint migrated customers from Telenet to the modern-day Sprintlink IP network, one of many networks composing today's Internet. Telenet had its first offices in downtown Washington DC, then moved to McLean, Virginia. It was acquired by GTE while in McLean, and then moved offices in Reston, Virginia. Under the various names, the company operated a public network, and also sold its packet switching equipment to other carriers and to large enterprise networks. ==History== After establishing "value added carriers" was legalized in the U.S., Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) who were the private contractors for ARPANET set out to create a private sector version. In January 1975, Telenet Communications Corporation announced that they had acquired the necessary venture capital after a two year quest, and on August 16 of the same year they began operating the first public packet-switching network.〔"Electronic post for switching data." Timothy Johnson. New Scientist. May 13, 1976〕〔Mathison, S.L. Roberts, L.G. ; Walker, P.M., (The history of telenet and the commercialization of packet switching in the U.S. ), Communications Magazine, IEEE, May 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Telenet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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