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 ...

Verizon Communications last week announced plans to shift its nationwide telecommunications network to packet-switched technology as part of a plan to offer new voice-over-IP and multimedia services.

28 May 2006 Doha- Bahrain Telecom (Batelco) signed a new bilateral commercial Global Packet Radio Switching (GPRS) roaming service with Qatar Telecom (Qtel). The new service which went into operation ...

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 ...

Enterprise network engineers upgrading their Ethernet backbones, and service provider network engineers deploying metro Ethernet and triple-play services, share a common challenge. When scaling packet ...

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 ...