packetizev.
/ˈpakᵻtʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈpækəˌtaɪz/ Computing and Telecommunications.
transitive. To partition or separate (data) into units for transmission in a packet switching network; to format as a packet. Cf. packet n. 3b.
ΚΠ
1974 V. Cerf et al. Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 675 If there is a new or partial letter awaiting packetization, it tries to packetize the letter, TCB buffer and window permitting.
1986 G. Langley Telecommunications Primer (ed. 2) xxxvi. 116 This layer packetizes and re-assembles messages and controls the flow of packets in the network.
1994 Computer Weekly 16 June 33/2 Saturn offers an X.25 interface where required but, unusually, does not ‘packetise’ the traffic across the wide area network.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
v.1974