Complete Definition of "packet switching"

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packet switching
#computing a means of directing digitally encoded information in a communication network from its source to its destination, in which messages may be divided into smaller entities called packets, each of which travels independently through the network in paths based on moment to moment route|routing decisions made by the node|nodes through which they pass.

See also
circuit switching

fi:packet switching

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