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by ahartmetz 703 days ago
The old and new standard ways to do virtual circuit switching are ATM (heavily optimized for low latency voice - 53 byte packets!) and MPLS (seems to be a sort of flow labeling extension to "host" protocols such as IP - clever!).

Both are technologies that one rarely has any contact with as an end user.

Sources: Things I've read a long time ago + Wikipedia for ATM, Wikipedia for MPLS.