ATM can build virtual circuits and virtual paths either statically or dynamically.
Each packet can be routed differently, along virtual paths set up in the network.
This is similar to the use of virtual channels and virtual paths in ATM networks.
There were more thumping crashes behind him, as they laid strip charges to clear real as well as virtual paths through the mines.
True CMR aggregates all available paths into a single, virtual path.
A virtual path can range in size from 250 kbit/s to 34 Mbit/s.
This is the product of amalgamating Home and Office users onto a single consolidated, but larger, virtual path.
Request and reply follow the same virtual paths which are constructed using an algorithm involving probabilities.
The virtual paths are torn down and reconstructed on a regular basis to allow anonymity for newly added members.
The SS7 is so powerful it can actually create up to 7 additional virtual paths for the heaviest traffic.