Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In telecommunication, a fast packet switching is a packet switching technique that increases the throughput by eliminating overhead. Note 1: Overhead reduction is accomplished by allocating flow control and error correction functions to either the user applications or the network nodes that interface with the user. Note 2: Cell relay and frame relay are two implementations of fast packet switching. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.