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 ...

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 ...

Back in the 1999 heyday of prosperity in the communications segment, everyone from chip vendors to switch makers to service providers were talking up VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). The ...

An efficient means of routing and transferring data over a network by breaking it up into very small pieces (packets). Each packet is addressed to its destination, like pieces of mail in a postal ...

Verizon Communications announced a deal with Nortel Networks on Tuesday, the latest carrier moving to add packet-switching technology to its voice network. Other carriers are also slowly moving toward ...

Description: A qualitative and quantitative study of the issues in design, analysis, and operation of computer communication and telecommunication networks as they evolve toward the integrated ...

Aproposed FCC rule change filed this month has set off a civil-liberties tempest. Under the change, the FCC would treat packet telephony the same as circuit-switched voice for purposes of compliance ...