Now that network visionaries have been returned to Earth by the gravity of market realities, they're seeing that in order to not only survive but prosper, Internet Protocol (IP)-based private networks ...

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 ...

Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 473-505 (33 pages) This paper is concerned with blocking and loss probabilities in circuit-switched networks. We show that when the ...

This paper is concerned with the stationary distribution of a one-dimensional circuit-switched network. We show that if arrival rates decay geometrically with distance, then under the stationary ...

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 ...

Westwood-based Sprint Corp. has contracted with Nortel Networks Corp. of Brampton, Ontario, to convert Sprint's Local Telecommunications Division's digital circuit-switched network to a ...

"The market reception to our R300 OCS 300x300 port product has been extremely strong," said Peter Roorda, Lumentum general manager, Cloud & Networking. "The R64 now brings our proven MEMS technology ...

Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...