Network protocols are formal standards and policies consisting of rules, procedures, and formats that define how data is exchanged over networks. They ensure that devices can communicate effectively, ...

In the last newsletter, we continued a discussion of discarding voice vs. data packets. This time we’ll continue that discussion with a proposal for how data transmission could be greatly enhanced by ...

Instead, a method called packet switching is used. With packet switching, messages are broken up into very small pieces, called packets. Each packet consists of two parts: The packets are sent ...

NetScout’s InfiniStream 2900 Series offers customers a lower capacity, compact form-factor appliance to extend deep packet analysis to the network edge. NetScout Systems Wednesday introduced an ...

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 ...