Forwarding may refer to:

Computing and technology

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 **

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 *

Cisco Express Forwarding {{Short description, Layer 3 switching technology 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 propr ...

, an advanced layer 3 switching technology used mainly on the enterprise core network or the Internet *

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 pe ...

, a service that redirects mail from one address to another **

Email forwarding Email forwarding generically refers to the operation of re-sending an email message delivered to one email address to one or more different email addresses. The term ''forwarding'', used for mail since long before electronic communications, has no ...

, the re-sending of an email message onward to another email address *

Operand forwarding Operand forwarding (or data forwarding) is an optimization in pipelined CPU A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising ...

in an instruction pipeline *

Packet forwarding Packet forwarding is the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network. The network layer in the OSI model is responsible for packet forwarding. Models The simplest forwarding modelunicastinginvolve ...

, the relaying of packets from one network segment to another by nodes in a computer network **

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 *

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 netw ...

, the act of forwarding a network port from one network node to another *

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 r ...

, 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 *

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 company who, for a fee organizes shipments for individuals or corporations to get goods from the manufacturer or producer to a market, customer or final point of distribution.

dispatches shipments via common carriers * Timber forwarding, the transport of logs from the stump to the forest road *

Perfect forwarding C++11 is a version of the ISO/IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language. C++11 replaced the prior version of the C++ standard, called C++03, and was later replaced by C++14. The name follows the tradition of naming language versions b ...

, a feature of the programming language C++11 *

Routing Routing is the process of selecting a path for traffic in a network or between or across multiple networks. Broadly, routing is performed in many types of networks, including circuit-switched networks, such as the public switched telephone netw ...

Computing and technology

Other uses

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