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A Technical History of CYCLADES
Below is a list of digitally archived documents relating
to the Cyclades computer network. They are listed in chronological order,
and each paper's "worth" (how much valuable information it contains; how
clearly it was written) is denoted by stars: one star being the least
worthy... five stars being a "must read" paper.
Pouzin, Louis
"Architectures et varietes de reseaux"
Automatisme
January, 1973
pp. 431-442
This paper is written in French, and there is no extra information here to
justify the translation. It is a fairly long paper, and gives in depth
information into how networks work- most of this is information most people
(interested in Cyclades) already know, and some is obsolete.
Rating: 
Pouzin, Louis
"Presentation and Major Design Aspects of the Cyclades Computer Network"
Third Data Communications Symposium
St. Petersburg, Florida
November, 1973
pp. 80-85
This is a good introductory paper to the Cyclades network. It is the first
paper written in English describing the design aspects of the network. It is a
broad (not detail-oriented) overview of the entire network. It is a bit
abstract, and possibly a little hard to understand if unfamilliar with the
terminology that was used during the project.
Rating: 
Pouzin, Louis
"Interconnection of Packet Switching Networks"
Proceeding of the Seventh Hawaii International Conference of System Sciences Supplement
1974
pp. 108-109
This paper is so short, you might as well read it! It's only about one
page and a half, and it is a proposal for interconnecting networks. It doesn't
directly relate to the Cyclades computer network, but it is a little insight as
to why Cigale was designed like it was.
Rating: 
Pouzin, Louis
"CIGALE, The Packet Switching Machine of the Cyclades Computer Network"
IFIP Congress
Stockholm
August, 1974
pp. 155-159
This paper is a very good detail-oriented look at Cigale, the bottom layer
(data transmission layer) of the Cyclades network.
Rating: 
Pouzin, Louis
"The Cyclades Network - Present State and Development Trends"
Proceedings of the 1975 Symposium, Computer Networks: Trends and Applications
Gaithersburg, Maryland
June, 1975
pp. 8-13
This paper is a continuation of the November, 1973 paper, and it won't
make much sense unless you have read the '73 paper. It is basically a project
update, and will be more interesting if you are interested in the progress of
the project, and not just the end result.
Rating: 
Pouzin, Louis
"Packet Networks: Issues and Choices"
Proc. IFIP 1977 Congress
Toronto
August, 1977
pp. 515-521
This paper is an introduction to the concept of packet-switching. It is
pretty long, and contains a lot of information you probably already know, but it
would be interesting to the "history of science" person since it illustrates why
there is a need for packet switching and the issues involved in developing a
packet switching network.
Rating:
Zimmermann, H.
"The Cyclades Experience: Results and Impacts"
Proc. IFIP'77 Congress
Toronto
August, 1977
pp. 465-469
This is a great paper for learning about Cyclades. Since it was written
after the network was completely built, there are a lot less abstractions, and
it is more clear. It is a summary of what the "final product" was.
Rating:
Pouzin, Louis
"Cyclades or how to lose a market"
Recherche N°328 - 02/2000 - - 1819 words
Ever wonder what happened to the Cyclades network, and why the ARPANET evolved into the
Internet instead of it? In this article Louis Pouzin takes us on a quick tour of French
politics and explains how the French Telecom industry killed Cyclades.
Rating:
Pouzin, Louis
The Cyclades Computer Network: Towards Layered Network Architectures
North Holland Publishing Company, New York, 1982
This book is Volume 2 of a monograph series of the international council
for computer communications. Louis Pouzin edited the book, but there are
several authors listed, among them: Edouard Andre, Jean Claude Chupin,
Michel Gien, Jean-Louis Grange, Jean Le Bihan, Gerard Le Lann, Najah Naffah,
Louis Pouzin, Vincent Quint, Guy Sergeant and Hubert Zimmermann. It is a
very detailed book that draws information from several Cyclades papers.
The bibliography is a valuable source for further reading.
Rating:
11.
Jean-Claude Guedon
"The force of the distributed intelligence"
Recherche N°328 - 02/2000 - - 5786 words
Long article, probably very good but most of my copy is not translated into English, I
just searched on Cyclades and found a good quote. I did not read the rest of the article.
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