store-and-forward switching center

store-and-forward switching center: A message switching center in which a message is accepted from the originating user, i.e., sender, when it is offered, held in a physical storage, and forwarded to the destination user, i.e., receiver, in accordance with the priority placed upon the message by the originating user and the availability of an outgoing channel. (188)

This HTML version of FS-1037C was last generated on Fri Aug 23 00:22:38 MDT 1996