Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet switching technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84. Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet ...

As the Internet transitions from a best-effort network to a strategic global IP infrastructure, demands will not only be for higher bandwidth, but also for a wider range of integrated services ...

Serious inefficiencies occur in the communication between variable-length packets and fixed-length cells, however. Each cell must have a header. And, as the network schedules, prioritizes, and divides ...

Paul Baran, one of the inventors of the packet switching technology that underpins all internet traffic, has died aged 84. Baran passed away on Saturday at his home in Palo Alto, California, following ...

An efficient means of routing and transferring data over a network by breaking it up into very small pieces (packets). Each packet is addressed to its destination, like pieces of mail in a postal ...

Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...

A digital network technology that breaks up a message into smaller chunks (packets) for transmission. Unlike circuit switching in traditional telephone networks, which requires the establishment of a ...