Enterprises are increasingly virtualizing IT infrastructure by migrating storage, application, and database servers into cloud/hosted datacenters. As they do so, they need to partner with ISPs and ...

SIP trunking is financially attractive. But it is important to size your SIP trunking to support the calling services that your enterprise requires The proliferation of SIP trunking makes the ...

Spiraling network line rates, presently hitting up to 10 Gbit/second, are approaching the performance limits of the packet buffers in today's datacom line cards. For its part, buffer-memory ...

Interconnect standards such as PCI Express, Hyper Transport and Rapid IO have several common features such as packet based transmission, flow control for buffer space management, data integrity checks ...

The Hierarchical Token Buckets (HTB) queuing discipline, part of the Linux set of traffic control functions, is a mechanism that provides QoS capabilities and is useful for fine-tuning TCP traffic ...

The amount of network traffic in today’s wiredand wireless infrastructures continues to riseat dramatic rates to keep up with the demandfor IP (Internet Protocol)-based voice, video,and data services ...

Figuring out the amount of bandwidth a video signal requires on an IP network isn’t terribly hard, but it does require some familiarity with the underlying technologies and packet formats. Getting the ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks do not have to be bandwidth-intensive to be disruptive and hard to mitigate. Earlier this month, Imperva mitigated an attack against one of its clients ...