Verizon Communications this 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.

Data transfer rate is a measurement of the amount of data sent between two points on a network in a given time period. It is a highly important concept in modern business networking, with high data ...

Data centre networks are increasingly constrained by the capacity, latency and energy demands of conventional electronic packet switches. Optical switching technologies offer a compelling alternative, ...