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 ...

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, ...

While the whole world is more and more enamored of AI and all its applications, there exist some very real barriers impeding its full success. Take, for example, AI data center infrastructure, which ...

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 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 ...

Wireless communication networks form the backbone of modern digital connectivity, facilitating data exchange between a myriad of devices over the air. Spanning from localised ad hoc systems to global ...

Summary: The company's "real" commercial announcement finally takes it beyond the open-source Floodlight stage. Big Switch offers up some SDN applications, but it's a far cry from the SDN "app store" ...