The packet data market is feeling pressure from IP VPN and Ethernet services; but because most businesses are transitioning their networks to emerging services and not performing full, one-time ...

Wired data connections will never be entirely replaced by wireless ones, but the Ethernet protocol still has some design constraints that limit the performance of certain data transfers. One way to ...

Hardware configuration: a file server has a 10GBE connection to a switch, and a client has four GigE connections to the same switch (bonded). The switch is L3 managed, and has LACP enabled on the ...

Ten years ago, we were in the midst of the controversy over whether frame-based technologies, such as frame relay and IP or cell-based technologies (ATM in particular), would form the foundation of ...

In the last newsletter, we determined that the historical arguments as to why frames are inherently better than cells are quite weak in today’s environment. In this newsletter, we’ll see if any of the ...

Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet. Network packets are small units of data that are sent from ...