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 ...

Fragment-free switching is also known as runtless switching and is a hybrid of cut-through and store-and-forward switching. Fragment-free switching was developed to solve the late-collision problem. A ...

Verizon Communications announced a deal with Nortel Networks on Tuesday, the latest carrier moving to add packet-switching technology to its voice network. Other carriers are also slowly moving toward ...

The Cisco Silicon One portfolio now provides the highest bandwidth routing and switching silicon in a unified product portfolio, Cisco Fellow Rakesh Chopra tells CRN. Cisco Systems is introducing ...

The appliance model, where the hardware and software were tightly controlled by a single vendor, held sway in the datacenter for decades. But that top-to-bottom stack been peeling apart, oddly enough ...

In the IT sector, there is a constant flow of little changes to hardware and software that culminate in progress. And every now and then, there are tectonic shifts that delineate a much more dramatic ...

As electronic devices get more complex—with more functions and potentially more inputs and outputs—the strategy for testing becomes more complex as well. Generally, an efficient test-system design ...