• packet switching is a method of grouping data into short messages in fixed format, i.e. packets, that are transmitted over a digital network. Packets...
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  • A packet-switching node is a node in a packet-switching network that contains data switches and equipment for controlling, formatting, transmitting, routing...
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  • In telecommunications, fast packet switching is a variant of packet switching that increases the throughput by eliminating overhead associated with flow...
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  • packet switching and the associated communication protocols on the local-area NPL network. By 1973, BPO-T engineers had developed a packet-switching communication...
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  • contrasts with message switching and packet switching used in modern digital networks in which the trunklines between switching centres carry data between...
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  • satisfy different types of traffic. Multiprotocol label switching belongs to the family of packet-switched networks. MPLS operates at a layer that is generally...
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    message blocks in the early 1960s, and Donald Davies conceived of packet switching in 1965 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), proposing a national...
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  • and computer networking, a network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and...
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    including circuit switching networks and packet switched networks. In packet-switched networks, routing protocols direct packet forwarding through intermediate...
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  • Multi-layer switching combines layer-2, -3 and -4 switching technologies and provides high-speed scalability with low latency. Multi-layer switching can move...
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  • switching involves messages routed in their entirety, one hop at a time. It evolved from circuit switching and was the precursor of packet switching....
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  • (VC) is a means of transporting data over a data network, based on packet switching and in which a connection is first established across the network between...
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    digital radio, packet radio is the application of packet switching techniques to digital radio communications. Packet radio uses a packet switching protocol...
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  • the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A PSDN may use a variety of switching technologies, including packet switching, circuit switching, and message...
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    the network. He incorporated Donald Davies' concepts and designs for packet switching, and sought input from Paul Baran on dynamic routing. In 1969, ARPA...
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  • between the yet unfeasible full optical packet switching (OPS) and the mostly static optical circuit switching (OCS). It differs from these paradigms because...
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  • cut-through switching, also called cut-through forwarding is a method for packet switching systems, wherein the switch starts forwarding a frame (or packet) before...
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  • on a computer network by using packet switching to receive and forward data to the destination device. A network switch is a multiport network bridge that...
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  • In a packet switched network, burst switching is a capability in which each network switch extracts routing instructions from an incoming packet header...
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  • mobile switching center server is a part of the redesigned MSC concept starting from 3GPP Release 4. The mobile switching center server is a soft-switch variant...
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  • Donald Davies (category Packets (information technology))
    implementation of packet switching in the local-area NPL network in 1966-69 to demonstrate the technology. Many of the wide-area packet-switched networks built...
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  • were operating on the basis of circuit switching, alternatives to which are message switching or packet switching. Bob Taylor became the director of the...
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    Paul Baran (category Packets (information technology))
    computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer...
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    he applied queueing theory to model and measure the performance of packet switching networks and published several of the standard works on the subject...
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  • of the GSM network switching subsystem. The network provides mobility management, session management and transport for IP packet services in GSM and...
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    NPL network (category Packets (information technology))
    Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London that pioneered the concept of packet switching. Based on designs first conceived by Donald Davies in 1965, development...
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  • Datagram (category Packets (information technology))
    the first multi-node packet-switching network. An accompanying paper described its switching nodes (the IMPs) and its packet formats. The network core...
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    functionality not found in the OSI network layer. An X.25 WAN consists of packet-switching exchange (PSE) nodes as the networking hardware, and leased lines,...
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    Data fragmentation Dynamic bandwidth allocation Dynamic TDMA Packet Packet switching Example of Statistical Multiplexing (Chart from a real DVB-T multiplex)...
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    enabled the time-sharing of computer resources, the development of packet switching in the 1960s and the design of computer networks for data communication...
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