A virtual circuit (VC) is a means of transporting data over a data network, based on packet switching and in which a connection is first established across...
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode (redirect from Virtual circuit identifier)
model in which a virtual circuit must be established between two endpoints before the data exchange begins. These virtual circuits may be either permanent...
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in an analog phone switch, to virtual circuits established over packet switching networks. A telecommunication circuit may be defined as follows:[citation...
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a circuit switched connection, or a packet-mode virtual circuit connection. In the latter case, it may use either a transport layer virtual circuit protocol...
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Virtual circuit multiplexing or VC-MUX is one of the two (the other being LLC encapsulation) mechanisms for identifying the protocol carried in ATM Adaptation...
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In electronics, a virtual ground (or virtual earth) is a node of a circuit that is maintained at a steady reference potential, without being connected...
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That is, based on virtual circuits or datagrams. Virtual circuits use packet switching technology that emulates circuit switching, in the sense that...
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permanent virtual circuits on the data link. X.25 supports two types of virtual circuits; virtual calls (VC) and permanent virtual circuits (PVC). Virtual calls...
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Protocol Wars (section Datagrams vs virtual circuits)
are possible). With a virtual circuit service, data can be exchanged between two host applications only after a virtual circuit has been established between...
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that it provides to users a service of flow-controlled virtual circuits. These virtual circuits reliably carry variable-length packets with data order...
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Frame Relay (section Virtual circuits)
transmission. For most services, the network provides a permanent virtual circuit (PVC), which means that the customer sees a continuous, dedicated connection...
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up a virtual connection to an end station and has transmitted messages ... might also view the system as a black box providing an apparent circuit connection"...
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hosts at the ends of a virtual circuit must agree a priori that the circuit will be used for one specific protocol (e.g. the circuit will only be used to...
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The header of the Frame Relay frame and the ATM cell refers to the virtual circuit that the frame or cell resides on. The similarity between Frame Relay...
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highly complex problem of providing user applications with a reliable virtual circuit service while using a best-effort service, an early contribution to...
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An Ethernet virtual connection or Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) defines a data link layer bridging architecture that supports Ethernet services. An EVC...
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unlike a real short circuit, no current flows between the terminals of the virtual short. Electronics portal Annealing by short circuit Breaking capacity...
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the packet exchanges between DTE (data terminal) devices across VCs (virtual circuits). PLP also can be used on ISDN using Link Access Procedures, D channel...
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helpers, such as dividers or logic gates. The OOPic also makes use of "virtual circuits," where the programmer can create links between object properties....
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connections between local area networks and the Internet using permanent virtual circuits (PVCs). Today, the term may refer not only to Frame Relay and Asynchronous...
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transmitted only directly from one computer to another single host over a virtual circuit or across a switched fabric. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Frame...
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addresses to subnetwork points of attachment (SNPAs) to route OSI packets; virtual circuit identifier (VCI) numbers are an example of a datalink layer SNPAs in...
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Some transport layer protocols, for example TCP, but not UDP, support virtual circuits, i.e. provide connection-oriented communication over an underlying...
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In telecommunications, a Datakit is a virtual circuit switch developed by Sandy Fraser at Bell Labs for both local-area and wide-area networks. It is...
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Transport layer example: A TCP session, which is synonymous to a TCP virtual circuit, a TCP connection, or an established TCP socket. In the case of transport...
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may refer to: Peripheral venous catheter, intravenous tube Permanent virtual circuit, in electronic networks Personal Voter Code, used by the INEC card...
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encapsulated in cells and the destination address must be converted to a virtual circuit identifier. Some new types of optical fibre use a passive optical network...
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latency, AES47 uses "raw" ATM cells, ATM adaptation layer 0. Each ATM virtual circuit negotiates the parameters of a stream at connection time. In addition...
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delivery (possibly without latency and throughput guarantees), or with virtual circuit schemes which can maintain a predefined quality of service. There are...
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protocol suite used as part of call setup to establish a switched virtual circuit between public data networks (PDNs), connecting two network user addresses...
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