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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finchetto has successfully demonstrated its optical switching approach using Pilot's lasers and is now designing it into its next generation of demonstrators. The Pilot and Finchetto development teams ...

Eoptolink's OCS switches, the NX200 and NX300, support 140 ports and 320 ports respectively, enabling optimized AI network ...

The PI7C9X3G1224GP PCIe 3.0 packet switch from Diodes accommodates 24 lanes of Gen3 SerDes in 3-port to 12-port configurations. For fan-out purposes, any port of the packet switch can be configured as ...

The need for unified networks serving artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference is reaching an unprecedented scale. Broadcom’s answer: The Tomahawk 6 switch delivers 102.4 Tbs of switching ...

Tower’s advanced silicon photonics platform enables optical networking innovation with high-speed optical circuit switching and transceivers for ...

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 ...

Finchetto's optical network switch for AI and data communications to be enabled by Pilot Photonics' nano-second switching ...