The 14th century brought demographic collapse to much of the eastern hemisphere with the spread of the bubonic plague. During the 15th century, as areas began to recover and rebuild their societies, they also sought to revive the network of long-distance trade that had been so devastated by the disease.
What is 'Channel Stuffing' Channel stuffing is a deceptive business practice used by a company to inflate its sales and earnings figures by deliberately sending retailers along its distribution channel more products than they are able to sell to the public.
I have a different understanding of the term. Stuffing is a method to maintain transparency in a communications channel when certain specific bit or byte sequences have special meaning to lower layer protocols. For example, HDLC delimits physical frames with the 8-bit flag sequence 01111110 (hex 7e).