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 ...

Switching algebra is easily visualized using switches since there are only two values: on and off, or true and false. In digital systems we represent these as 1 and 0, respectively. There are only two ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Data Centre World — CALIENT Technologies, Inc., the global leader for Optical Circuit Switching technology, today announced the S160, a new smaller port-count version of its ...

This design, based on a Maxim MAX220 RS-232 driver/receiver IC, allows you to increase the number of USARTs (universal synchronous, asynchronous receiver/transmitters) available on a microcontroller.

If you’ve ever dealt with a brightly lit Christmas tree, you might understand the frustration of having to crawl underneath the tree to turn the lights on and off. [brmarcum] feel’s your pain. He’s ...