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{{no footnotes|date=January 2013}} {{Short description|Technique in packet-switched networks}} {{Use American English|date=December 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} In a [[packet switched]] [[computer network|network]], '''burst switching''' is a capability in which each [[network switch]] extracts [[routing]] instructions from an incoming [[Packet (information technology)|packet]] [[header (computing)|header]] to establish and maintain the appropriate switch [[telecommunication connection|connection]] for the duration of the packet, following which the connection is automatically released. In concept, burst switching is similar to [[connectionless mode transmission]], but differs in that burst switching implies an intent to establish the switch connection in [[near real time]], so that only minimum buffering is required at the [[node (networking)|node]] switch. A variant of burst switching used in [[optical telecommunication|optical networks]] is [[optical burst switching]].
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