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 ...

Packet switching equipment is a comparably young market with merely 20 years of evolution. At the core of packet switching equipment lays the switch fabric; this single sub-system is probably the most ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON, Sept. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) at ECOC 2013, today announced new OTN SmartCORE' IP for high capacity combined Ethernet and 100G OTN switching platforms and ...

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 ...