As we mentioned last time, there was an entire industry built around using TDM bandwidth efficiently due to the compelling economics of building corporate private-line networks. By the late 1980s, ...

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 ...

Do you know when a network link needs more bandwidth? When do you have to add more bandwidth to a congested link? When it runs out of bandwidth is the obvious answer. But how do you know that a link ...

Ethernet over the last few years has evolved to provide high bandwidth over the aggregate Gigabit link. Next generation telecommunication networks are also shifting towards packet processed network ...

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 ...

Authors of the 802.3ae standard detail options to address performance issues. From its inception, 10G Ethernet was intended to retain backward compatibility and full interoperability with 10/100/1000M ...