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 ...

Despite the industry attention it has received, voice-over-IP (VoIP) is not the only way to send voice across a packet-switched network. In fact, it may not even be the best approach for some ...

For designers who want to migrate to a next-generation, packed-based network, the changes involved may be good, but they aren't easy. Telecommunications design engineers face a number of challenges ...

For designers who want to migrate to a next-generation, packed-based network, the changes involved may be good, but they aren't easy. Telecommunications design engineers face a number of challenges ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sprint Corp. is to change its entire circuit-switched telephone network to packet technology in an attempt to keep up with customer demand for capacity, the company announced today. All 8 million of ...

The architecture, described as ‘packet-controlled circuit-switched double-layer network-on-chip’ provides 11Tbit/s/W communication with every core sending to its neighbour, and 435Gbit/s bandwidth.