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 ...

A digital network technology that breaks up a message into smaller chunks (packets) for transmission. Unlike circuit switching in traditional telephone networks, which requires the establishment of a ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Some of the biggest backers of circuit-switched architectures are acknowledging that packetized voice will overtake their analog world soon, but exactly how remains a bone of ...

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 National ...

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 ...