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 ...

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Cisco is a giant in the Networking space. Its Packet Tracer has ruled the market for ages and looks like will continue to do so. With the help of the Cisco Packet Tracer, one can create both simple ...

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, ...

Convergence is a dominant theme in modern telecommunications and networking, and it touches virtually all levels of the communications hierarchy. In the core, carriers desire a simple, unified network ...

Enterprise network engineers upgrading their Ethernet backbones, and service provider network engineers deploying metro Ethernet and triple-play services, share a common challenge. When scaling packet ...

Verizon kicked off an extensive upgrade to its fiber core packet network that will use Juniper Networks equipment to quadruple network performance with a path toward ...

Interface packet loss provides indications of link problems that shouldn’t go ignored. But then you have to decide on an alerting threshold that indicates a problem without creating too many false ...

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 ...

Packet-optical transport system (P-OTS) technology will start to be deployed in carrier core networks in 2010, said a recent report from Heavy Reading, the research division of Light Reading (News - ...