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 ...

One of the design requirements for the networks that evolved into the Internet was the ability to keep functioning, even if some nodes or links were disabled or destroyed in war. The packet-switched ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ:TSEM) saw its shares rise more than 11% after announcing a strategic collaboration with Oriole Networks, a developer of advanced photonic networking platforms. The ...

Eoptolink Technology Inc., Ltd., a global leader and innovator in advanced optical interconnect solutions, today announced that it will unveil its new Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) products at OFC 2026 ...

Finchetto's optical network switch for AI and data communications to be enabled by Pilot Photonics' nano-second switching tunable laser. LOS ANGELES, March 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Pilot Photonics ...