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.
[Source: from ]Federal Standard 1037C
Federal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms, is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, ...
and from MIL-STD-188 It may refer to:
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Collision domain, a physical network segment where data packets can "collide"
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Carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance, (CSMA/CA) used for example with wireless LANs
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Carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection, (CSMA/CD) used with Ethernet
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Late collision, a specific type of collision that should not occur on properly operating networks
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Local collision is a collision that occurs in the network interface rather than on the network itself
See also
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Collision (disambiguation)
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Contention (telecommunications)
In statistical time division multiplexing, contention is a media access method that is used to share a broadcast medium. In contention, any computer in the network can transmit data at any time (first come-first served).
This system breaks down ...
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