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Re:How Verizon fixed a recent backbone provider issue by jlgaddis on Friday February 06, 2015 @02:27PM (#9011006)
> ... they have to work at such incredible speeds that they are unable to actually keep up with verifying packet integrity before shooting it down into the next hop.

Yep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-through_switching

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