AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION hat a difference 25 years makes! When this article was written
the telecommunications industry was still a heavily regulated, non-competitive but highly …

Over the past decade data communications has been revolutionized by a radically new
technology called packet switching. In 1968 virtually all interactive data communication …

This article was written for a seminar held on the occasion of the Franklin Institute's 2001
Bower Award and Prize for the Achievement in Science to the author" for his seminal …

The large capacity of optical fibers suggests that circuit-switching may become a more
attractive switching method in future communication networks. We show, however, that …

With the advent of optical fiber and its large bandwidth, many services, such as packetized
data, voice, and video, are now becoming available on physical transmission lines. The high …

A new, high-performance packet-switching architecture, called the Knockout Switch, is
proposed. The Knockout Switch uses a fully interconnected switch fabric topology (ie, each …

Growth in communication network capacity has been fueled by rapid advances in fiber-optic
transmission technologies. In contrast, growth in the capacity of switching and routing nodes …

Current estimates and measurements predict that Internet traffic will continue to grow for
many years to come. Driving this growth is the fact that the Internet has moved from a …

The historical forces that have shaped the current structure of telephone switching systems
and how telecommunication engineers think about switching systems are discussed. The …

From the Publisher: Complete and comprehensive coverage of packet switching concepts
and technologies The rapid growth of Internet traffic has spurred a new concentration on IP …