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packet switching

n.
A method of data transmission in which data is broken into small blocks that are transmitted over different channels and are reassembled into their original order at their destination.
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packet switching

n
(Computer Science) computing the concentration of data into units that are allocated an address prior to transmission
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Translations
commutation de paquets

packet switching

[ˈpækɪtˈswɪtʃɪŋ] n (Comput) → commutazione f di pacchetto
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The Packet Switched Streaming Activity Group was formed by the IMTC in order to perform interoperability tests for Packet-Switched Streaming according to 3GPP Technical Specifications 26.233 and 26.234, for delivering/streaming multimedia content over wireless networks.
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These packets then travel over a packet-switched network from sender to receiver.
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At the Design Automation Conference in June, Peh and her colleagues will present a paper she describes as "summarizing 10 years of research" on such "networks on chip." Not only do the researchers establish theoretical limits on the efficiency of packet-switched on-chip communication networks, but they also present measurements performed on a test chip in which they came very close to reaching several of those limits.
Topics discussed include protection architectures for passive optical networks, fault management, pulse position modulation-based packet-switched routing, dynamic traffic grooming, survivable service provisioning, and self-healing in transparent optical packet-switching networks.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks.
Precise synchronisation between UMTS Base Transceiver Stations and the Radio Network Controller is essential to Ethernet and IP packet-switched networks.
Most organizations migrating multiple application types to an integrated packet-switched WAN service will benefit from traffic management tools like DPI.
The solution provides a cost-effective means of creating new services on both circuit-switched and packet-switched networks, the company said.
He first covers such fundamentals as packet-switched networks, networking protocols and devices, data links and transmission, local area networks (LANs) and how they are internetworked, wireless networks and mobile IP, routing and internetworking, transport and end-to-end protocols, applications and network management, and network security.
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