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 ...

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 is ...

An old method of transmitting information (voice or data) through a system or network by establishing a persistent, dedicated connection ("circuit"). This connection consumes resources even when no ...

The market for optical circuit switching (OCS) is now forecast to reach at least $2.5bn by 2029, according to market research firm Cignal AI. This projection represents an upward revision of ...

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has unveiled its latest project: an open-standard networking switch powered by photonics. The Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) Subproject aims to develop an ...

”Switching power supply” is a generic term that describes a power source with a circuit to convert dc to ac voltages that can be further processed into another dc voltage. Switching power supply can ...