traffic engineering

1. The inexact science of predicting the volume of future traffic and equipping a

network with enough switching and transmission resources to handle that volume, thereby providing end users with a satisfactory grade of service (GoS). See also Erlang, Erlang B, Erlang C, Equivalent Queue Extended Erlang B, Extended Erlang B, GoS, Poisson distribution, and traffic.

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• NEC (National Electrical Code)
• negative
• negative acknowledgement (NAK)
• NE (Network Element)
• nerd
• nest egg
• Net (InterNet)
• net (network)
• .net (network)
• Net neutrality (InterNet neutrality)
• Netscape Communicator
• Netscape Navigator
• Network 10 address
• Network Access Point (NAP)
• network access server (NAS)
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• network architecture
• network architecture
• network-attached storage (NAS)
• network-attached storage (NAS)
• network control center (NCC)
• Network Control Program (NCP)
• Network Control Protocol (NCP)
• network element (NE)
• network interface card (NIC)