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Collision (telecommunications)

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A collision is the situation that occurs when two or more demands are made simultaneously on equipment that can handle only one at any given instant. It may refer to:

  • Collision domain, a physical network segment where data packets can "collide"
  • Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance, (CSMA/CA) used for example with wireless LANs
  • Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection, (CSMA/CD) used with Ethernet
  • Late collision, a specific type of collision that shouldn't occur on properly operating networks
  • Local collision is a collision that occurs in the network interface rather than on the network itself
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    Collision (telecommunications) Wikipedia