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Is there parallelism in packet-switching?

First of all, this is a very nice question, so kudos for asking it. Next: Packets are a very generic term that is not well-defined. I prefer using packet as synonymous to datagram, which is network-...
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Is there parallelism in packet-switching?

A switch can send and receive frames on different ports in parallel. It can even do that on the same port when it's in full-duplex mode (which is pretty much the norm today). Modern, fixed-port ...
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