telecommunications, packet switching is a method of grouping data into packets that are transmitted over a digital network. Packets are made of a header...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

the network. He incorporated Donald Davies' concepts and designs for packet switching, and sought input from Paul Baran. ARPA awarded the contract to build...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he conceived of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer...

(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...

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

Davies published a seminal article in which he introduced the packet and packet switching. His proposed core network is similar to the one proposed by...

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,...

of the GSM network switching subsystem. The network provides mobility management, session management and transport for IP packet services in GSM and...

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

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...

clock in 1955, and the invention and pioneering implementation of packet switching in the 1960s, which is today one of the fundamental technologies of...

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

of packet processing is the history of the Internet and packet switching. Packet processing milestones include: 1962–1968: Early research into packet switching...

to enable time-sharing of computer resources and the development of packet switching in the 1960s. The set of rules (communication protocols) to enable...