Do you remember when we used multi-protocol routing for IPX, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP running on the same network? In the 1980s and early 1990s many enterprises had multiple protocols running on the ...

As more and more data moves across WANs and into the cloud, making the most of your WAN connections is key Last week, I explained the growing importance of understanding TCP basics — specifically, TCP ...

Take advantage of TCP/IP options to optimize data transmission Your email has been sent By Alex Kuznetsov, Alex Plant, and Alexander Tormasov Last time, we explained how the TCP_CORK option can ...

A wide area network connects the far-flung employees of North Slope Borough, Alaska, but until recently traffic over the WAN’s satellite links moved too slowly to make sending e-mail practical, never ...

The data transfer in a TCP/IP network is usually block-based. From a programmer’s point of view, sending data means issuing a series of “send data block” requests. On a system level, sending an ...

Advances in congestion control and performance optimisation are critical to ensuring robust and efficient data transmission across an ever-expanding range of network environments. Contemporary ...