Wednesday, January 16, 2013

What is a 'Network Packet'

Network Packet

According to wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_packet

In computer networking, a packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet mode computer network. Computer communications links that do not support packets, such as traditional point-to-point telecommunications links, simply transmit data as a series of bytescharacters better shared among users than if the network were circuit switch.


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