Glossary

Learn about advanced telecom and cloud-based networkingย functions and technologies that are enabling the latest wave ofย innovations in the telecom industry.โ€‹

Data Plane

DP

The data plane is also called the forwarding plane. Think of the control plane as like the stoplights operating at road intersections in a city. Meanwhile, the data plane (or the forwarding plane) is more like the cars that drive on the roads, stop at the intersections, and obey the stoplights.