As we mentioned last time, there was an entire industry built around using TDM bandwidth efficiently due to the compelling economics of building corporate private-line networks. By the late 1980s, ...

Circuits as WAN connections battled successfully against packets for years because they guaranteed bandwidth, no matter what. If you bought a T-1 circuit, the service provider nailed up 1.5Mbps from ...

Sprint is to change its entire circuit-switched telephone network to packet technology in an attempt to keep up with customer demand for capacity, it announced Tuesday. All eight million of Sprint’s ...

The internet could have been known as the catenet if an early web pioneer had got his way. In 1974, French engineer Louis Pouzin designed one of the first packet-switching technologies, which breaks ...

One of the design requirements for the networks that evolved into the Internet was the ability to keep functioning, even if some nodes or links were disabled or destroyed in war. The packet-switched ...

Roger Scantlebury demonstrates the "packet switching" system that underpins how data moves around the internet. He was a member of the National Physical Laboratory team that ran a computer network at ...

This paper presents a Network-on-Chip architecture based on a store-and-forward switching mode suitable for System on Chip interconnection. The network includes routers which dispatch messages, ...

Verizon Communications this week announced plans to shift its nationwide telecommunications network to packet-switched technology as part of a plan to offer new voice-over-IP and multimedia services.

Summary: The company's "real" commercial announcement finally takes it beyond the open-source Floodlight stage. Big Switch offers up some SDN applications, but it's a far cry from the SDN "app store" ...