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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coriant, a global supplier of SDN-enabled end-to-end packet optical networking solutions, today announced it has expanded its metro packet optical networking ...

Packet switching is a network transmission method that sees data sent in small blocks called packets rather than as a continuous stream. Sending data in this way helps to improve the robustness and ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 9 /PRNewswire/ — TPACK (www.TPACK.com), an industry leading provider of cutting-edge silicon ICs that provide core data transport and switching functions to leading telecom ...

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Hideyuki Tokuda, Ph.D.) has successfully demonstrated a world-record for switching capacity of 53.3 Tb/s for short ...

Representing the first products to go commercial from the company's expanded R&D program to develop scalable switch fabric ICs for core, access, optical and enterprise networks, the CrossStream ...

ADTRAN Expands Packet Optical Capacity by 8x to Achieve Best in Class High-density Carrier Ethernet service delivery and transport module increases scalable reliability for cloud, mobile and video ...

Telecommunications service provider Verizon Communications has begun using an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM ) backbone to carry some voice calls, a step in the carrier’s first migration to a new ...