Packet switching is a digital networking communications method that groups all transmitted data – regardless of content, type, or structure – into suitably sized blocks, called packets. ==Overview== Packet switching features delivery of variable bitrate data streams (sequences of packets) over a shared network which allocates transmission reso...
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Method of telecommunications aimed at optimising bandwidth efficiency, whereby multiple users share the same transmission channels and only transmit data when they have data to send, as opposed to establishing a dedicated link (Circuit Switched Data (CSD).
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the technique in which a stream of data is broken into standardised units called 'packets', each of which contains address, sequence, control, size and error-checking information in addition to the user data
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the process of routing messages in a telecommunication network, where the messages are first cut into addressed packets; in certain nodes of the network, these packets are received, stored and forwarded onto the appropriate transmission channels; at the receiving end, the message is reconstituted from the received packets NOTE - A packet occupies a...
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Messages are divided into packets before they are sent. Each packet has a head and tail and is transmitted individually. Packets can even follow different routes to its final destination. Once all the packets arrive, they are recompiled into the original message.
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Technique whereby the information (voice or data) to be sent is broken up into packets, of at most a few KB each, which are then routed by the network between different destinations based on addressing data within each packet. Use of network resources is optimized, as the resources are needed only during the handling of each packet. This is an idea…
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The method used to move data around on the Internet. In packet switching, all the data coming out of a machine is broken up into chunks, each chunk has the address of where it came from and where it is going. This enables chunks of data from many different sources to co-mingle on the same lines, and be sorted and directed along different routes by ...
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Packet Switching is the technique in which a stream of data is broken into standardised units called 'packets,' each of which contains address, sequence, control, size and error checking information in addition to the user data. Specialised packet switches operate on this added information to move the packets to their destination in the proper sequ...
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(NETWORK GLOSSARY) Network on which nodes share bandwidth with each other by intermittently sending logical information units (packets).
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Type of data transfer that occupies a communication link only during the time of actual data transmission. Messages are split into packets and reassembled at the receiving end of the communication link.
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An efficient method of data transmission that breaks down messages into smaller information units of standard size called packets, which are individually addressed and routed through a network.
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A method of transmitting units of data (called packets) through a mesh network. There is no physical circuit established between end points; instead, each packet is individually relayed from one switching node to the next, and individual packets may take different routes through the switching node.
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Method of transmitting data between computers connected in a network. Packet switched networks do not provide a dedicated connection between two locations, as with a circuit switched network. Packet switched networks make more effective use of bandwidth than circuit switched networks, and are more resilient to breaks in network links because there ...
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