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 ...

Back in the 1999 heyday of prosperity in the communications segment, everyone from chip vendors to switch makers to service providers were talking up VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol). The ...

Pericom Semiconductor Corporation announced the industry's first PCIExpress (PCIe(R)) packet switch product family designed for power,size and value-sensitive applications, such as volume ...

Finchetto develops photonic packet switch eliminating electronic control bottlenecks Dual-wavelength innovation enables optical routing without electronic memory slowdown Future-proof passive optics ...

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) today announced the PI7C9X2G304EVQ and PI7C9X2G404EVQ PCIe 2.0 packet switches, offering 3-ports/4-lanes and 4-ports/4-lanes, ...

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 ...

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 ...

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diodes Incorporated (Nasdaq: DIOD) has introduced the PI7C9X3G808GP, a PCIe® 3.0 packet switch capable of delivering the elevated performance parameters mandated by ...

I've been banging the table about how network security is the hottest application for Software Defined Networking (SDN). This week, Big Switch Networks confirms this trend with the release of Big Tap ...