I had an assignment at university that dealt with the size of a message after being sent through two different types of networks with different packet sizes and network headers. That's all we were ...

A group of fields in a network packet that describes its content, all required destination addresses to reach its target, and all source information necessary to allow a response to come back. See ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a short time, network infrastructure bandwidth has scaled exponentially to 10 Gbits/s, with designs for next-generation Ethernet promising between 40 and 100 Gbits/s. At the same time, the ...

Deep packet inspection (DPI) is a method of examining the content of data packets as they pass through the network. Contrary to conventional packet (or NetFlow) filters – which are devices that check ...

Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn't collapse when major companies including Google, Facebook and Yahoo! enabled IPv6 on their ...