In packet switching architectures, multicast transmission to two or more ports is inherent to the forwarding mechanics of certain protocols while strictly operational necessities in others. For ...

As I finished last week's column on packet switching, a "teachable moment" took place (well, more of a "writable moment"), and it serves to illuminate another aspect of the Internet that remains the ...

Fragment-free switching is also known as runtless switching and is a hybrid of cut-through and store-and-forward switching. Fragment-free switching was developed to solve the late-collision problem. A ...