When any data (web traffic, email, video, etc.) is sent across the Internet it is divided up into packets. Each packet contains some data plus the addresses of the source and destination. If there is more data than can fit in a single packet it is split across multiple independent packets
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Modified on: Sat, 28 Apr, 2018 at 8:10 PM
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