A small housetop computer routes traffic, much the way data is routed globally on the Internet.
Furthermore, data is routed unblocked over paths with minimum length.
The different colours represent blocks of internet addresses owned by different companies through which emails and other data are routed.
When a driver requests directions from an OnStar representative, his G.P.S. data is routed over an analog cellular network to OnStar computers.
Still, service providers have some control over how data is routed through the Internet at large, a complicated technical process called peering.
It lets smart "end-devices", such as PCs, do the work of plucking the data out of the ether, rather than relying on a central unit to control the way those data are routed.
Packet switching is a type of network where small units of data are routed through a network based on the destination address in each packet.
We grew comfortable with, for example, talking about the Internet as a sort of "place" we would go, which was easier, perhaps, than trying to describe packets of data being routed between servers.
The network software "fundamentally controls how data is routed from content providers to users, how quality of service is determined appropriately by path, and how we channel the data down the right path," Mr. Berberian said, according to a transcript of the call.
"It enables cybersecurity vendors to offer the most up-to-date protection without bothering users with constant on-screen alerts". Kaspersky is also the only major anti-virus firm whose data is routed through Russian Internet service providers subject to Russian surveillance.
