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 ...

As I finished last week's column on packet switching, a "teachable moment" took place (well, more of a "writable moment"), and it serves to illuminate another aspect of the Internet that remains the ...

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 ...

THE COMPANY WITH the best-performing stock over the past five years makes buggy whips. Tellabs, Inc. makes digital cross-connects, essentially big switches that direct traffic over telephone networks.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Lucent Technologies Inc. rolled out its Lucent Softswitch at the SuperNet show here this week, making good on its two-year-old promise to deliver systems that allow new Internet ...