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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Data Centre World — CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for Optical Circuit Switching technology, today announced the S160, a new smaller port-count version of its ...

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 ...

To ensure that we can all watch YouTube without interruption, major Internet service providers must manage two very different switching technologies. Wide area "IP" networks made up of packet switches ...

Lucent last week broadened its circuit-to-packet migration offerings with a switch and components designed to let service providers evolve Class 5 networks to IP. Lucent last week broadened its ...

An old method of transmitting information (voice or data) through a system or network by establishing a persistent, dedicated connection ("circuit"). This connection consumes resources even when no ...

The transition to packet technology for deliver ing both voice and data will be incremental. Carriers have billions invested in the circuit switched infrastructure and a voice service revenue model.

If you thought that the digital TV transition, with its billion-dollar coupon program for converter boxes, was a migration nightmare, wait until it’s time for the phone system to dump its legacy ...