LOS ANGELES—This is the second installment of a contribution from Jim DeFilippis on SDI versus IP. For Part 1, see “Which Switch is Which?” The second tale-of-the-tape issue is delay or latency. There ...

Packet queues are a core component of any network stack or device. They allow for asynchronous modules to communicate, increase performance and have the side effect of impacting latency. This article ...

What is FCIP, and what is it used for? Fibre Channel over IP, or FCIP, is a tunnelling protocol used to connect Fibre Channel (FC) switches over an IP network, enabling interconnection of remote ...

If you deal with network administration or security management, or if you are merely curious about what is passing by over your local network, grabbing some packets off the network card can be a ...

We have a VPN configured through a Cisco ASA 5505. We are getting hammered by some IP addresses that appear to be located in China and would like to put a stop to this. I have a little bit of a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Figuring out the amount of bandwidth a video signal requires on an IP network isn’t terribly hard ...