Back-Haul
A communications path that takes traffic farther than the ultimate destination and then routes it back. The cost of transmission to the more remote...
Definition:
Traceroute is a network diagnostic tool used to track the pathway taken by a packet on an IP network from source to
destination in real time, reporting the IP addresses of all the routers it pinged in between. Traceroute also records the
time taken for each hop the packet makes during its route to the destination.