Establishing Connections: Switching Modes and Networking Modes

For messages to travel across a network, a transmission path must be established to either switch or route the messages to their final destinations. Therefore, network providers need a mechanism that allows them to deliver the proper connections when and where a customer requests them. When, as you can imagine, is ideally now or bandwidth on demand. Where has two components: path calculation, which entails establishing the proper physical or logical connection to the ultimate destination, and forwarding, which is concerned with how to actually guide the traffic across the backbone so that it uses that physical and logical connection to best advantage.

The networking techniques that ...

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