network traffic
Packets in transit
Network traffic is the data flowing across a computer network at any given time.
The term borrows from transportation—like vehicles on roads, data packets move between devices, and networks can experience congestion during high-volume periods.
Administrators monitor network traffic to identify bottlenecks, security threats, or unusual activity: The spike in network traffic suggested a denial-of-service attack.
- firewallsSecurity barriers blocking intrusions
- TCP/IPInternet's core protocol suite
- routersPacket-forwarding network hardware
- data packetsDiscrete units of transmitted information
- file sharingDistributing digital content online
switches · video streaming · SSH · encryption · FTP · hubs · modems · UDP · DNS · VPNs · SMTP · servers · ARP · phishing protection · throttling · bandwidth · packet loss · latency
- internetinternet, websites, web, browsers, web browsers
- networksMAN, PAN, cloud computing, router, Wi-Fi
- metricsKPI, metric, KPIs, metrics, statistics
- networkingrouter, routers, LAN, WAN, switches
- IT NetworksLAN, WAN, routers, switches, firewalls
- network metricsthroughput, latency, packet loss, jitter, ping
network, traffic, work, networks, networking, networked, works, worked, working