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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Telecommunications service provider Verizon Communications has begun using an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM ) backbone to carry some voice calls, a step in the carrier’s first migration to a new ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ADTRAN ®, Inc., (NAS: ADTN) , a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced a significant expansion of its award-winning Optical ...

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 ...

“Demand for higher and more efficient bandwidth utilization is driving the development of smarter networks based on OTN Switching. However, shortfalls in traditional ASIC and ASSP solutions threaten ...