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Packet switching inventor Paul Baran dies aged 84

...Paul Baran, one of the inventors of the packet switching technology that underpins all internet traffic, has died aged 84. Paul Baran... Read more

29 March, 2011 by Ben Woods

Ofcom to make it easier to change broadband service

...providers, and to keep them from being 'slammed'. At the moment, the switching process for services run on the UK's copper infrastructure is too... Read more

9 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Cisco plans further firings to maintain earnings

...that Cisco wants to retrench around its core product lines of routing, switching, collaboration, datacentres and video technologies and move out of peripheral businesses. Another... Read more

11 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cisco reports earnings and outlines lay-offs

...are taking comprehensive action to address." The company's second-largest segment, switching, has also continued to come under pressure as aggregate margins fall due... Read more

12 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Microsoft builds low-cost datacentre switch

...is programmable via general APIs that are not dependent on a specific switching processor, and it can be plugged into most industry-standard servers, the... Read more

1 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cisco reports reduced second quarter revenue and profit

In its second quarter, Cisco has reported revenues and profits were down on the previous quarter, with lower revenue on its core line of switches Read more

10 February, 2011 by Jack Clark
Fast Scheduling for Optical Flow <endeca_term>Switching</endeca_term>

Fast Scheduling for Optical Flow Switching

Optical Flow Switching (OFS) is a key enabler of scalable future optical networks. It is... Read more

1 June, 2010
Combining SDM-Based Circuit <endeca_term>Switching</endeca_term> with Packet Switching in a Router for On-Chip Networks

Combining SDM-Based Circuit Switching with Packet Switching in a Router for On-Chip Networks

...Chip "NoC" is presented, it combines Spatial Division Multiplexing "SDM" based circuit switching and packet switching in order to efficiently and separately handle both streaming... Read more

19 September, 2011
Design of Active Queue Management for Robust Control on Access Router for Heterogeneous Networks

Design of Active Queue Management for Robust Control on Access Router for Heterogeneous Networks

The Internet architecture is a packet switching technology that allows dynamic sharing of bandwidth among different flows with in... Read more

7 March, 2011
A Voice Priority Queue (VPQ) Fair Scheduler for the VoIP Over WLANs

A Voice Priority Queue (VPQ) Fair Scheduler for the VoIP Over WLANs

Transmission of VoIP over packet switching networks is one of the rapidly emerging real-time Internet Protocol. The... Read more

2 February, 2011
Flexible Wormhole-Switched Network-on-Chip With Two-Level Priority Data Delivery Service

Flexible Wormhole-Switched Network-on-Chip With Two-Level Priority Data Delivery Service

A synchronous network-on-chip using wormhole packet switching and supporting guaranteed-completion best-effort with Low-Priority (LP) and High... Read more

7 January, 2011
A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication

A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication

...protocol that supports the sharing of resources that exist in different packet switching networks is presented. The protocol provides for variation in individual network packet... Read more

1 January, 2011
Hardware Requirements for Optical Circuit Switched Data Center Networks

Hardware Requirements for Optical Circuit Switched Data Center Networks

Several recent research efforts have applied Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) to data center networks. The Helios prototype promises massive scalability with... Read more

15 December, 2010
QoS-Aware Cross-Layer Multicasting for Optical Packet-Switched Networks: Simulation Exploration and Test-Bed Demonstration

QoS-Aware Cross-Layer Multicasting for Optical Packet-Switched Networks: Simulation Exploration and Test-Bed Demonstration

...layer quality-of-service-aware packet multicasting is investigated for optical packet switching network fabrics. This paper presents both a numerical simulation exploration of the... Read more

23 September, 2010
Experimental Evaluation of Memory Effects on TCP Traffic in Congested Networks

Experimental Evaluation of Memory Effects on TCP Traffic in Congested Networks

...Internet is a worldwide-interconnected computer network that transmits data by packet switching based on the TCP/IP protocol suite. Internet has TCP as the... Read more

1 September, 2010

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