Enterprise network engineers upgrading their Ethernet backbones, and service provider network engineers deploying metro Ethernet and triple-play services, share a common challenge. When scaling packet ...

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 ...

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) has introduced the PI7C9X3G808GP, a PCIe® 3.0 packet switch capable of delivering the elevated performance parameters mandated by ...

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.

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) has announced the PI7C9X3G816GP, a PCIe ® 3.0 packet switch that supports 16-lane operation in flexible 2-port, 3-port, 4-port, 5-port ...

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Diodes Incorporated (Diodes) (Nasdaq: DIOD) is introducing its latest PCIe® 3.0 packet switch, the DIODES™ PI7C9X3G1224GP. A high-performance 12-port, 24-lane device, ...

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, ...

Depending on how you look at it, the Internet turned 50 years old last week. On October 29, 1969, the first message was transmitted between two of the four nodes that made up ARPANET, the Internet’s ...