May 2009
Intermediate to advanced
882 pages
22h 55m
English
In data communications, the basic logical unit of information transferred. A packet consists of a certain number of data bytes, wrapped or encapsulated in headers and/or trailers that contain information about where the packet came from, where it's going, and so on. The various protocols involved in sending a transmission add their own layers of header information, which the corresponding protocols in receiving devices then interpret.
A physical device that makes it possible for a communication channel to share several connections; its functions include finding the most efficient transmission path for packets.
A networking technology based on the transmission of data in packets. Dividing a continuous ...
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