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payload - technical definition
- Also known as the text field.The user data within a block, cell, frame, or packet. See also block, cell, data format, frame, packet, and text field.
- The user data that traverses a circuit or network, in contrast to signaling and control information and overhead. Signaling and control information is used to monitor, supervise, maintain, and otherwise manage and control a network and its components. Overhead data is used for purposes such as addressing, congestion management, error control, priority indication, and routing calls, blocks, frames, packets, and cells containing payload. See also block, cell, frame, overhead, packet, and signaling and control.
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