Collision (telecommunications)

In telecommunication, the term collision has the following meanings:

1. In a data transmission system, the situation that occurs when two or more demands are made simultaneously on equipment that can handle only one at any given instant.
2. In a computer, the situation that occurs when an attempt is made to store simultaneously two different data items at a given memory address that can hold only one of the items.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

See also

• Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance, CSMA-CA
• Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection, CSMA-CD
• Late collision
• Collision domain

External links

• packet trace of ethernet collision
• Troubleshooting ethernet collisions - Cisco
• silly video depicting Ethernet collisions
• Troubleshooting Collisions and other Ethernet errors - 3com