Every router uses store-and-forward: it must receive a whole packet before sending it on, so one packet across N hops takes N transmission delays. But send a burst of packets and every link works at once — pipelining. This simulator lays out the pipeline slot by slot so you can watch packets flow diagonally across hops and compare one-at-a-time timing with the pipelined total, exactly as explained in the NET DIVE series.
store and forward · pipelining · transmission delay · hops · throughput · packet switching · networking fundamentals
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