{"id":208,"date":"2020-11-28T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T21:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/?post_type=term&#038;p=208"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:08:34","slug":"packet-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/packet-switch-025016\/","title":{"rendered":"Packet Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In computer networking, packet switches take incoming packets and forward them to outgoing communication links. This happens in several ways including both routers and link-layer switches.<\/p>\n<p>Link-layer switches are used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/term\/access-network\/\">access networks<\/a> and ultimately play a role in the traversal of packets across the network from one end system to another.<\/p>\n<p>Packet switches facilitate <em>packet switching\u00a0<\/em>which is a network protocol involving packets of data that contain headers. One example of a packet-switched protocol is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/transmission-control-protocol-tcp-252209\/\">transmission control protocol (TCP.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In computer networking, packet switches take incoming packets and forward them to outgoing communication links. This happens in several ways including both routers and link-layer switches. Link-layer switches are used in access networks and ultimately play a role in the traversal of packets across the network from one end system to another. Packet switches facilitate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,260],"tags":[100,461,99,6],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alpharithms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}