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I believe you are asking how data travels on the internet.

When you want to send or receive data from a location you will either need the remote locations IP address or the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) Ex: www.Cisco.com.

When you use the FQDN, it is translated into an IP address. An IP address is much like a phone number for a specific computer.

Data that includes web pages, audio, streaming video, etc... is broken or fragmented into smaller groupings of data called packets.

The data packets are then directed from or to your computer by various routers (think of a router as a traffic officer in an intersection) that direct where the data is to travel.

The internet has multiple pathways to get to various locations. If one path becomes unusable normally a detour (just like regular roads) directs the packet "traffic" around the path that is not usable.

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