Packet switching is the fundamental protocol that lets the Internet and Local Area Networks function in their decentralized, user-directed, constantly evolving ways. The idea is to group data to be ...

Like most components in the computing landscape, networking hardware has grown steadily faster over time. Indeed, today's high-end network interfaces can often move data more quickly than the systems ...

Streamlining data transmission is a critical challenge for any enterprise. Thankfully, the TCP/IP protocol provides many ways to optimize data transfer. This article examines several options and shows ...

Many people take networks for granted, despite the significant roles they play in our daily lives. Networks rely on a few basic concepts, some of which include encapsulation, decapsulation and network ...

let's say you have the option to build a clinet/server application that will pass a lot of traffic on a LAN. Nothing routable. Let's assume the network is error-free and no packets are lost and no ...

At the recently concluded Netdev 0x16 conference, which was held both in Lisbon, Portugal and virtually, Stanford professor John Ousterhout gave his personal views on where networking in data centers ...