Store and forward

Categories: Computing

Store and forward is a communications technique in which messages are sent to an intermediate station where they are kept and sent at a later time to the final destination or to another intermediate station. Reasons for using this method include:

• Origin and destination stations may not be available for communications at the same time
• One or more circuits may not have enough capacity for peak traffic and there is a need to give priority to certain messages, without losing the others.

References

• Switches - What Are Forwarding Modes and How Do They Work?

See also

• Network switch
• Ethernet
• Cut-through switching
• Fragment free cut-through
• Adaptive switching