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 ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Some of the biggest backers of circuit-switched architectures are acknowledging that packetized voice will overtake their analog world soon, but exactly how remains a bone of ...

Sprint Corp. is to change its entire circuit-switched telephone network to packet technology in an attempt to keep up with customer demand for capacity, the company announced today. All 8 million of ...

Over the past few years, Google has been quietly overhauling its data centers, replacing its networking infrastructure with a radical in-house approach that has long been the dream of those in the ...

Data centre networks are increasingly constrained by the capacity, latency and energy demands of conventional electronic packet switches. Optical switching technologies offer a compelling alternative, ...