Dolphin used fiberoptic interconnects to provide either maximum bandwidth or minimum latency, with a cross-connection grid that could easily be tuned with a sof

Dolphin used fiberoptic interconnects to provide either maximum bandwidth or minimum latency, with a cross-connection grid that could easily be tuned with a software switch to provide narrowly-predictable extremely low latency with an SLA. To say that this is circuit switching may or not be correct, but it’s wrong to say that it’s the antithesis of computer networking. EDIT: See also Cloudflare’s ultra-predictable, low-jitter backbone: https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo-and-the-cloudflare-global-private-backbone/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/argo-and-the-cloudflare-global-p...