These 'inbetween' 2.5G upgrades for GSM networks include GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data), and EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution), and all promise speeds somewhere between today's pitiful...
The move from circuit- to packet-switched IP networks leaves communications companies in a strange position. It was the need for computer communication that created the packet switched philosophy to obviate the need for 100 per cent dedicated...
TD-SCDMA supports data transmission at speeds of up to 2 megabits per second and includes support for both circuit-switched traffic, such as voice or video, and packet-switched traffic from the Internet.
It is aiming to start moving customers onto IP in 2006, and to switch off its circuit-switched voice network by 2010. In the wake of Marconi's surprise failure to be selected as one of BT's first batch of suppliers for a £10bn upgrade of its UK...
VoIP carries a call over a data network rather than only over a telephone providers' traditional circuit-switched network. Bhatnager said that deep-packet inspection - a method of checking every IP packet entering a network for unusual properties...
Bits is defined as "a packet-switched service that is offered to the public". It's all part of Congress's drive to update the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which does not address the internet and therefore "no longer reflects the technological...
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