data communication

transference of data from one computer to another, transmission of coded information

Computer networking is the engineering discipline concerned with communication between computer systems or devices. Networking, routers, routing protocols, and networking over the public Internet have their specifications defined in documents called RFCs. Computer networking is sometimes considered a sub-discipline of telecommunications, computer science, information technology and/or computer engineering. Computer networks rely heavily upon the theoretical and practical application of these scientific and engineering disciplines.
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Noun
1. electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers)
(synonym) digital communication
(hypernym) electronic communication
(hyponym) asynchronous transfer mode, ATM
(classification) computer, computing machine, computing device, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system

The transfer of information between functional units by means of data transmission according to a protocol. (188 ) Note: Data are transferred from one or more sources to one or more sinks over one or more data links.