With video conferencing becoming extremely popular in wired and wireless network, efficient utilization of the network bandwidth is important to achieve Quality of Service (QOS). Internet Protocol (IP ...

Internet protocol (IP) multicast technology has matured quite a bit since it was first deployed in the late 1990s. Multicast-enabled applications such as webinars, video/audio conferences, Internet ...

MBone is the multicast capable backbone of the Internet. Multicasting is a way of sending data packets from a host computer to a set of hosts called multicast group. Multicast routing protocols are: ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Routers and switches are filled with technologies, some ...

Once upon a time, layer-2 unicast performance tests would have produced by far the most important results, but that’s changed. Measuring unicast throughput on all ports, once considered the acid test ...

Network layer routing protocols provide the communication protocols and algorithms for determining routes to every destination and also for distributing the routing information throughout the network.