A packet of data that never reaches its destination. For example, if the network becomes congested and the traffic exceeds the momentary holding capacity (buffer space) of the router, packets will be ...

A team of researchers from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe, have devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times -- without increasing ...

Before continuing on to cover which of the various technologies – those that are part of the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture as well as others – addresses packet loss and how, I ...

During my recent network conundrum, I wound up doing a lot of pinging. I noticed a fair few lost packets when pinging my router (also functioning as AP) from the laptop while on wifi. Windows is ...

The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...

One of the big worries with carrying voice or video on an IP network is packet loss. When packets don't make it to the destination, voice and video quality is compromised. But why is this a big deal ...

In some recent newsletters, we discussed the inefficiencies caused by the way that typical legacy protocols would “Go-Back-N” whenever there was a lost packet or ...

Researchers at Caltech, Harvard and MIT have been working with colleagues in Europe to come up with a method of boosting wireless network performance. What they've created is a network that is 10 ...

LOS ANGELES—This is the second installment of a contribution from Jim DeFilippis on SDI versus IP. For Part 1, see “Which Switch is Which?” The second tale-of-the-tape issue is delay or latency. There ...