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, ...

Packet shapers are not well known outside of network administrators’ offices, but they are necessary technology from now on. Without them, colleges would face a stark choice: Pay for tremendous ...

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 ...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is the descriptor for the technology used to carry digitised voice over an IP data network. VoIP requires two classes of protocols: a signaling protocol such as SIP, H.323 or MGCP ...

A digital network technology that breaks up a message into smaller chunks (packets) for transmission. Unlike circuit switching in traditional telephone networks, which requires the establishment of a ...

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 ...