Demand for frame relay and even ATM switched virtual circuits never fully took off. Despite our enthusiastic writings about the scalability and automated user self-provisioning potential of SVCs back ...

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 ...

(1) A temporary communications path created between devices in a switched communications system. For example, a message from New York to Los Angeles may actually be routed through Atlanta and St.