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- Circuit Switching
- Path established prior to data transfer
- No buffering needed within switch
- Packet Switching
- Efficient use of switch capacity
- Buffering needed within switch
- Congestion may cause packet loss
- Path established during connection setup
- Cells flow along the same path
- VC numbers assigned on per link basis
Mahesh Subramanyan, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, mahesh@npac.syr.edu