Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...

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 ...

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 ...

A network packet is a basic unit of data that is transferred over a computer network, typically a packet-switched network, such as the internet. Before data like files, images, videos or emails are ...

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 ...

For many network equipment manufacturers, the switch chipset has been a core technology that has traditionally been handled using custom ASICs designed in-house. The switch chipset is often the first ...

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.