Forwarding may refer to:
Computing and technology
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Call forwarding
Call forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination, which may be, for example, a mobile or another telephone number where the desired called party i ...
, a telephony feature that allows calls to one phone number to be forwarded to another number
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Remote call forwarding
In telecommunications, remote call forwarding is a service feature that allows incoming calls to be forwarded to a remote call forwarding number, such as a cell phone or another office location, and is designated by the call receiver.
Customers m ...
, a telephony feature that allows call forwarding to be activated remotely
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Cisco Express Forwarding
Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) is an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly in large core networks or the Internet to enhance the overall network performance. Although CEF is a Cisco proprietary protocol other vendors of multi-layer sw ...
, an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly on the enterprise core network or the Internet
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Mail forwarding
Post offices and other mail service providers typically offer a mail forwarding service, commonly known as hybrid mail or virtual post office box services, to redirect mail addressed to one location to another address – usually for a given p ...
, a service that redirects mail from one address to another
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Email forwarding
Email forwarding generically refers to the operation of re-sending a previously delivered email to an email address to one or more different email addresses.
The term ''forwarding'', used for mail since long before electronic communications, has n ...
, the re-sending of an email message onward to another email address
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Operand forwarding
Operand forwarding (or data forwarding) is an optimization in pipelined CPUs to limit performance deficits which occur due to pipeline stalls. A data hazard can lead to a pipeline stall when the current operation has to wait for the results of ...
in an instruction pipeline
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Packet forwarding
Packet forwarding is the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network.
Models
The simplest forwarding model unicastinginvolves a packet being relayed from link to link along a chain leading from th ...
, the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network
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Forwarding equivalence class A forwarding equivalence class (FEC) is a term used in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) to describe a set of packets with similar or identical characteristics which may be forwarded the same way; that is, they may be bound to the same MPLS label ...
, a set of packets with similar or identical characteristics that may be forwarded the same way
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Perfect forwarding
C++11 is a version of a joint technical standard, ISO/IEC 14882, by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), for the C++ programming language. C++11 replaced the prior vers ...
, a feature of the programming language C++11
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Port forwarding
In computer networking, port forwarding or port mapping is an application of network address translation (NAT) that redirects a communication request from one address and port number combination to another while the packets are traversing a netwo ...
, the act of forwarding a network port from one network node to another
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Reverse-path forwarding
Reverse-path forwarding (RPF) is a technique used in modern routers for the purposes of ensuring loop-free forwarding of multicast packets in multicast routing and to help prevent IP address spoofing in unicast routing.
In standard unicast IP ...
, a technique used in routers for ensuring loop-free forwarding of packets in multicast routing and to help prevent IP address spoofing in unicast routing
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URL redirection
URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address. When a web browser attempts to open a URL that has been redirected, a page with a different URL is opened. ...
, also called URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, a technique that forwards web page visitors to another page
Other uses
* Freight forwarding, a service by which a
freight forwarder
A freight forwarder or forwarding agent is a person or a company who co-ordinates and organizes the movement of shipments on behalf of a shipper (party that arranges an item for shipment) by liaising with carriers (party that transports goods) ...
dispatches shipments via common carriers
* Timber forwarding, the transport of logs from the stump to the forest road
* Repossession Forwarding is a service provided to automotive finance lenders to assist them in managing the repossession process.
See also
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Routing (disambiguation)
Routing is the process of path selection in a network, such as a computer network or transportation network.
Routing may also refer to:
* Route of administration, the path by which a drug, fluid, poison or other substance is brought into contact ...
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