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Parent topics
- Multiplexing [r]: A variety of techniques in electronic engineering, computer science, and network engineering, the most basic of which being multiple lower-speed information channels being combined to be sent over a higher-speed transmission channel, and broken out again at the receiver [e]
- Telecommunications network [r]: A system of end user devices, transmission media, and intermediate relays, through which end users communicate using parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. [e]
- Internet [r]: International "network of networks" that connects computers together through the Internet Protocol Suite and supports applications like Email and the World Wide Web. [e]
Subtopics
- Routing [r]: The process of receiving a packet on one interface of a router, validating the packet and forwarding it out the appropriate interface. [e]
- Admission control [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode [r]: A technology for the transfer of fixed-length "cells" of digital information through specialized cell switches built on top of optical transmission networks; increasingly obsolescent [e]
- Control plane [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Forwarding plane [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Circuit switching [r]: Constituent electric circuit of a switching or digital processing system which receives, stores, or manipulates information in coded form to accomplish the specified objectives of the system. [e]
- Multi-Protocol Label Switching [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Resource Reservation Protocol [r]: An end-to-end control (i.e., signaling) protocol used to reserve bandwidth from one edge of an Internet Protocol network to the other edge [e]