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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

DENVER — Greenfield Networks Inc., a startup formed by executives from Cisco Systems Inc.'s Catalyst switching group and Marvell Technologies, is out to prove to a skeptical world that plenty can be ...

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MWC – Edgecore Networks, the leader in open networking, today announced the general availability of its Cassini open packet transponder, the industry’s highest ...

In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals ...

Dublin, Aug. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Data Center Interconnect Market by Type [Products (Packet Switching Network, Optical DCI), Software, Services (Professional, Managed)], Application (Real ...