Once upon a time, layer-2 unicast performance tests would have produced by far the most important results, but that’s changed. Measuring unicast throughput on all ports, once considered the acid test ...

New dynamic network infrastructures built on IP multicast will allow network “service velocity” to dramatically increase. Service velocity is the time between when the need for a service is recognized ...

Network coding represents a paradigm shift in data transmission, whereby intermediate nodes within a network combine incoming data streams using algebraic operations before forwarding them. This ...

Multicast, a technique commonly used in networking systems, allows a given processing unit to send a single data stream to multiple destinations at the same time efficiently. Typically, the switch ...

As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, ...

BT Group is working with content delivery network (CDN) firm Broadpeak to launch a service for live video streaming that they say will be critical to coping with growing network demand and ...

Disaster struck Attachmate's network about a year ago when the software vendor's marketing department tried to solve its monthly meeting problem without consulting the IT department. "They brought in ...