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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: packet switching
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Definition: 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 appropriated transmission channels; at the receiving end, the message is reconstituted from the received packets

NOTE – A packet uses a transmission channel only during its transmission, so that the channel is later available for the transfer of other packets belonging either to the same message or to other messages


Publication date:1991-11
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