In practice, general text compressors are used either for archiving purposes or for reducing the network bandwidth during the data exchange process.

实际上，一般这类压缩器用于归档目的，或在数据交换过程中减少网络带宽。

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Between locations that exchange large volumes of data - say, Los Angeles and New York City - flow switching would establish a dedicated path across the network.

在两个需要进行大量数据交换的地点之间——比如洛杉矶和纽约——流交换会在网络上建立一条专用链路。

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Adding network volumes to the mix provides a way to enable easy user-to-user data exchange or to simplify maintenance of similar networked computers.

通过添加网络卷，可以提供简便的用户间数据交换或简化相似的连网计算机的维护。

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It is a packet-switched technology, and only consumes network resources when data is being transmitted, so it is widely expected that customers will be charged for the amount of data they exchange, rather than the time they spend logged on to the network.

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The way to do this prior was to find out where the data center for an exchange was located and put your servers as close as possible and hopefully on the same network backbone.

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