As we mentioned last time, there was an entire industry built around using TDM bandwidth efficiently due to the compelling economics of building corporate private-line networks. By the late 1980s, ...

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 ...

Sprint is to change its entire circuit-switched telephone network to packet technology in an attempt to keep up with customer demand for capacity, it announced Tuesday. All eight million of Sprint’s ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In August 2025, I wrote about Finchetto, a UK photonics startup working on an optical packet ...

Summary: The company's "real" commercial announcement finally takes it beyond the open-source Floodlight stage. Big Switch offers up some SDN applications, but it's a far cry from the SDN "app store" ...