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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I recently started using a network tool called Ethereal. For those familiar with tcpdump, think of Ethereal as a GUI form of tcpdump that shows you the whole packet and can break down the packet to ...