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 ...

Circuits as WAN connections battled successfully against packets for years because they guaranteed bandwidth, no matter what. If you bought a T-1 circuit, the service provider nailed up 1.5Mbps from ...

Data centre networks are increasingly constrained by the capacity, latency and energy demands of conventional electronic packet switches. Optical switching technologies offer a compelling alternative, ...

What would cause a high number of "Deferred" packets on a Cisco Switch port. The port is set to 100 / half. Nothing else special - the port is a member of a vlan, and has spanning-tree portfast. I ...

With cybercrime taking the enterprise ecosystem by storm, the issue of securing a network infrastructure along with restricting employee access to unwanted internet resources is a top-of-mind priority ...

The G8000 family of Ethernet switch chips claims the industry's highest level of integration for carrier Ethernet services. The three chips in the Packetry II family support wirespeed rates of up to ...

If legislation like SOPA and PIPA ever passes, it may require your ISP to start monitoring your online activity with deep packet inspection It’s easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding ...

InfiniBand is on its way to becoming a mainstream switch fabric. The key to implementing InfiniBand is its switch nodes, the individual nodes that make up the warp and woof of the interconnection ...

The PI7C9X3G1224GP PCIe 3.0 packet switch from Diodes accommodates 24 lanes of Gen3 SerDes in 3-port to 12-port configurations. For fan-out purposes, any port of the packet switch can be configured as ...