Unlike circuit switching in traditional telephone networks, which requires the establishment of a dedicated point-to-point connection, each packet in a packet-switched network contains a ...

Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet.

when the network supports only the best effort traffic, or when the Internet traffic does not have a uniform characteristic. This chapter provides an introduction to Optical Packet Switched (OPS) ...

Similar to the electronic domain in which packet switching networks are used to transport users' traffic (which is mostly Internet traffic), optical packet switching (OPS) networks must be set up for ...

They comprise an air interface between the user's mobile device and the base station and two core networks; one for circuit-switched voice and another for packet-switched data. In the subsequent ...