Halvor Bothner-By (August 20, 1938 - June 13, 2014) was a telecommunication engineer of the Norwegian Telecommunications Administration. He was a rapporteur on

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for the

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. As such, he chaired the group that, in March 1975, proposed to the CCITT Recommendation X.2x on virtual circuits to be offered by public networks. After its unanimous approval at the May 1976 CCITT plenary, it became the well-known protocol

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. He was also renowned for having coined the term ''

datagram A datagram is a basic transfer unit associated with a packet-switched network. Datagrams are typically structured in header and payload sections. Datagrams provide a connectionless communication service across a packet-switched network. The de ...

'' in the early seventies on a train between Paris and Rennes on the way to attend a CEPT Rapporteur meeting. X.25 Virtual Circuits — Transpac in France — Pré-Internet Data Networking

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1938 births 2014 deaths Telecommunications engineers 20th-century Norwegian engineers X.25 {{Norway-engineer-stub