alleryPacket switching is a technology that does what with a message?
ASends it in separate portions
BPrints it onto sheets of paper
CStores it in a pigeon loft
DBurns it onto a vacuum tube
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Sends it in separate portions
1. In the 1960s Paul Baran and Donald Davies studied packet switching.
2. It sends a message in portions to its destination asynchronously.
3. It underlies computer networks and the Internet.
_Source: Wikipedia, Telecommunications, Computer networks and the Internet_
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