The main alternative to packet-switching is circuit-switching, where two devices on a network establish a dedicated communication line to send a stream of data across as with a phone call. This ...

Finchetto unveils photonic switch that could outpace electronics a thousandfold, reshaping hyperscale networking for the AGI ...

Roger Scantlebury demonstrates the "packet switching" system that underpins how data moves around the internet. He was a member of the National Physical Laboratory team that ran a computer network at ...

* Bandwidth efficiency took on new dimension with packet switching As we mentioned last time, there was an entire industry built around using TDM bandwidth efficiently due to the compelling ...

Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet switching technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84.

What Does a Router Do When Sending a Packet to Host Across the Internet?. A network router plays a crucial role in how data packets travel to and from a computer to host across the Internet ...

Integrated circuit technologies are enabling intelligent, chip-based, optical packet switch matrices. Rapid real-time re-configurability at the photonic layer using integrated circuit technologies ...

Verizon Communications said it will evolve its nationwide wireline network to packet-switching technology as part of a five-year deal with Nortel Networks, which will provide the telecom company ...

When Lawrence Landweber created the Computer Science Network (CSNET), an intentionally open computer network that helped pave the way for the modern internet, he knew one day its technology would ...

The fundamental technology underpinning the internet is called packet-switching. And Donald Davies was the first one to call it that. In the mid-1960s, Davies was a researcher with Britain’s ...