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 ...

Now that network visionaries have been returned to Earth by the gravity of market realities, they're seeing that in order to not only survive but prosper, Internet Protocol (IP)-based private networks ...

Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 473-505 (33 pages) This paper is concerned with blocking and loss probabilities in circuit-switched networks. We show that when the ...

This paper is concerned with the stationary distribution of a one-dimensional circuit-switched network. We show that if arrival rates decay geometrically with distance, then under the stationary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Westwood-based Sprint Corp. has contracted with Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario, to convert Sprint's Local Telecommunications Division's digital circuit-switched network to a ...

Today, the FCC convenes the first meeting of its “Technology Transitions Policy Task Force,” a new intra-agency group announced in December by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. The bland name belies a ...

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 ...