In the past few newsletters, we described in considerable detail the mechanisms that are in place in TCP to ensure efficient transport of information. In particular, we concentrated on the ability of ...

Low-cost software-based protocol analysis vendor Network Instruments LLC on Monday will make its first foray into WAN protocol analysis with its new WAN Observer. The protocol analysis and monitoring ...

Today, we’re continuing Jim’s discussion with Jamie Batmanglidj, senior systems architect for Comcast Media Center, who described his company’s challenge of transferring large files over the WAN. He ...

TR-069 describes the Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) WAN Management Protocol (CWMP), intended for communication between a CPE and Auto-Configuration Server (ACS). The Secure Socket Layer (SSL) in ...

Three proposals covering storage over Ethernet coexist in the Internet Engineering Task Force working group: Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP), storage-area networks (SANs) that use Fibre ...

From the start, Linux has been the operating system of choice for network appliances—devices that provide services such as network address translation (NAT), firewalling, virtual private networks (VPN ...

As IT environments grow more complex, applications are being delivered from a wide range of sources, including the internet, data centers and other remote sites, placing increasing demands on wide ...

Ekinops, a provider of optical transport and aggregation solutions, introduced its 10G transponder and protocol converter. The PM 1001 is the most recent addition to the Ekinops PM Series, an advanced ...

The noise in the Software-Defined Wide-Area Networking (SD-WAN) marketplace has reached pandemonium levels, as a wide range of vendors seek to disrupt the hegemony of Cisco Systems in the networking ...