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 ...

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A digital network technology that breaks up a message into smaller chunks (packets) for transmission. Unlike circuit switching in traditional telephone networks, which requires the establishment of a ...

The vast majority of administrators go to great lengths to protect the files on their network. Typically, elaborate firewalls are used to keep outsiders away from file servers. The files residing on ...

Vint Cerf invented the protocol that rules them all: TCP/IP. Most people have never heard of it. But it describes the fundamental architecture of the internet, and it made possible Wi-Fi, Ethernet, ...

When discussing Ethernet data, the terms frame and packet are often used interchangeably. Frames and packets are the electronic containers that carry our data from point-to-point by navigating LANs ...

We have a VPN configured through a Cisco ASA 5505. We are getting hammered by some IP addresses that appear to be located in China and would like to put a stop to this. I have a little bit of a ...

The communications technology of the public Internet, local area networks (LANs) and most wide area networks (WANs). The Internet Protocol (IP) is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and the terms "IP ...

What is FCIP, and what is it used for? Fibre Channel over IP, or FCIP, is a tunnelling protocol used to connect Fibre Channel (FC) switches over an IP network, enabling interconnection of remote ...