Internet traffic engineering

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Internet traffic engineering

Internet traffic engineering refers to all the work related to the physical network (usually fiber optic cables, routers, exchanges) that carries Internet traffic between different networks with the objective of reaching the highest levels of capacity in the Internet backbone.

This definition is provided by Dr. Abdel-Hameed Nawar "E-Commerce" Lecture Notes, Cairo University, Faculty of Economics and Political Scinece, Egypt, 2005.