Packet Switching

What is packet switching?

• A mode of data transmission in which a message is broken into a number of parts which are sent independently, over whatever route is optimum for each packet, and reassembled at the destination.

• Data transmission

• Optimum route

What does TCP/IP mean?

• Traffic Control Protocol/Information Protocol

• Transport Control Protocol/Intranet Protocol

• Truck Car Protocol/Intranet Protocol

• Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

How do packets being transferred link to have a car journey?

• You can have to stay on route

• There is a driver in charge of the packet

• You can change routes

How is data sent?

• Splitting them up

• One huge packet

Why are packets split?

• To make the data arrive in order

• To make the data more manageable

• To make it easier to transport