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choke point

A Dictionary of the Internet | 2001 | 275 words | Copyright

choke point A point in a computer network through which all or most of the traffic in the network flows. Such points are vulnerable to both CRACKERS and hardware failure. One of the main strategies of network designers is to minimize or eliminate the number of choke points.

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