network meltdown Last modified: Friday, May 23, 2003
A state in which a network grinds to a halt due to excessive traffic. A network meltdown generally starts as a broadcast storm that gets out of control, but even legitimate network messages can cause a meltdown if the network hasn't been designed to accommodate that level of traffic.
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