PAD

Communications Systems Glossary

Communications Systems — PAD

Information on PAD

The PAD is the data terminal’s interface with a packet-switching network that breaks messages into packets for transmission and reassembles the packets into messages at receiver. This terminology is usually associated with X.25 networks.

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