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...

A packet-switching node is a node in a packet-switching network that contains data switches and equipment for controlling, formatting, transmitting, routing...

In telecommunications, fast packet switching is a variant of packet switching that increases the throughput by eliminating overhead associated with flow...

contrasts with message switching and packet switching used in modern digital networks in which the trunklines between switching centres carry data between...

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...

satisfy different types of traffic. Multiprotocol label switching belongs to the family of packet-switched networks. MPLS operates at a layer that is generally...

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...

message blocks in the early 1960s, and Donald Davies conceived of packet switching in 1965 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), proposing a national...

he applied queueing theory to model and measure the performance of packet switching networks and published several of the standard works on the subject...

(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...

including circuit switching networks and packet switched networks. In packet-switched networks, routing protocols direct packet forwarding through intermediate...

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...

packet switching and the associated communication protocols on the local-area NPL network. By 1973, BPO-T engineers had developed a packet-switching communication...

Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London that pioneered the concept of packet switching. Based on designs conceived by Donald Davies in 1965, development work...

the network. He incorporated Donald Davies' concepts and designs for packet switching, and sought input from Paul Baran on dynamic routing. In 1969, ARPA...

computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer...

digital radio, packet radio is the application of packet switching techniques to digital radio communications. Packet radio uses a packet switching protocol...

were operating on the basis of circuit switching, alternatives to which are message switching or packet switching. Bob Taylor became the director of the...

routing strategy for networks based on packet switching which can reduce the need of buffering packets. Every packet has preferred outputs along which it...

Multi-layer switching combines layer-2, -3 and -4 switching technologies and provides high-speed scalability with low latency. Multi-layer switching can move...

created the ARPANET, the first wide-area computer network to implement packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and...

the first multi-node packet-switching network. An accompanying paper described its switching nodes (the IMPs) and its packet formats. The network core...

the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A PSDN may use a variety of switching technologies, including packet switching, circuit switching, and message...

switching involves messages routed in their entirety, one hop at a time. It evolved from circuit switching and was the precursor of packet switching....

to an X.25 (packet-switching) network or host computer. It collects data from a group of terminals and places the data into X.25 packets (assembly). A...

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,...

In packet switching networks, traffic flow, packet flow or network flow is a sequence of packets from a source computer to a destination, which may be...

between the yet unfeasible full optical packet switching (OPS) and the mostly static optical circuit switching (OCS). It differs from these paradigms because...

was one of the pioneering networks experimenting with the concept of packet switching and, unlike the ARPANET, was explicitly designed to facilitate internetworking...

Data fragmentation Dynamic bandwidth allocation Dynamic TDMA Packet Packet switching Example of Statistical Multiplexing (Chart from a real DVB-T multiplex)...