A network router plays a crucial role in how data packets travel to and from a computer to host across the Internet. Routers serve as the junction point between the computers in a network and an ...

Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...

Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest ...

Delivering quality-of-service (QoS) in packet-switched networks requires sorting the packets into traffic classes and ensuring that each class of traffic receives an appropriate share of ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Storage-area network vendor Nishan Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) described an ASIC at the Hot Chips conference on Tuesday (Aug. 21) that will power its next generation of ...

It’s funny how things come in waves. For most of last year the majority of my consulting engagements concerned IPv6 in some way or another. But over the past month and a half most of my time has been ...

AMSTERDAM-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- OCP Regional Summit – Edgecore Networks, the leader in open networking, today announced its contribution to the Open Compute Project (OCP) of the industry’s first open ...

Rate your favorite Cisco Press books. Years of innovation and work to continuously improve various transport technologies and network elements led operators to have high expectations of their networks ...

A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...