Burst switching explained

In a packet switched network, burst switching is a capability in which each network switch extracts routing instructions from an incoming packet header to establish and maintain the appropriate switch connection for the duration of the packet, following which the connection is automatically released.

In concept, burst switching is similar to connectionless mode transmission, but differs in that burst switching implies an intent to establish the switch connection in near real time, so that only minimum buffering is required at the node switch.

A variant of burst switching used in optical networks is optical burst switching.

Applications

Examples of technology using burst switching include:

References

Notes and References

  1. White Paper describing EtherLoop Technology, preliminary, Revision 1.2 . 7–12 . 1999 . Texas Instruments Product Support Documents . . 27 December 2023 . 9 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220709081201/https://www.ti.com/sc/docs/products/network/tiwpapr12.pdf . live .
  2. Cybertruck DEEP DIVE with 5 Tesla Executives! . 11 December 2023 . . Austin, Texas . 13:38–20:51 . 27 December 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231211224357/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5zDNaY1fvI . 11 December 2023 . live . . Sandy Munro, Lars Moravy, Franz von Holzhausen, Drew Baglino, Pete Bannon, David Lau.