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 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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Lucent Technologies Inc. rolled out its Lucent Softswitch at the SuperNet show here this week, making good on its two-year-old promise to deliver systems that allow new Internet ...

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 ...

Finchetto has developed a fully optical passive network switch for data centres, hyperscalers, high-performance compute and telecommunications (Credit: Finchetto) ...