Here's the second installment in our two-part set on parallel packet buffering (PPB) architectures. In the Part 1 of this series, we explored how the PPB architecture works, looking at how it improves ...

Last time, we began our discussion of what can be done to address the impact of packet loss on application performance over the WAN. We listed six different possibilities, and went through how one of ...

Network geeks among you may remember my article, “Linux Socket Filter: Sniffing Bytes over the Network”, in the June 2001 issue of LJ, regarding the use of the packet filter built inside the Linux ...

JA: Prior to joining the BroadSoft fold, Packet Island was a small, but highly focused company that addressed some important challenges around the delivery of IP communications in a converged network ...

Countless pieces of software, protocols and complex interdependencies together form a system for which it is difficult to guarantee any particular property—particularly security. Even software ...

Modern switches and routers often use dynamic RAM (DRAM) in order to provide large buffer storage space. However, the effective bandwidth of DRAM is frequently a limiting factor in the design of ...