In the last RTFM we saw how IP packets are transmitted across the network. Here, we tackle Ethernet and see how packets are encapsulated and used. To explain fully the way in which IP packets are used ...
The PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) multiplexing/demultiplexing discussed in RFC 3153 is designed to reduce the size of the PPP header to increase throughput. PPP ...
Video over Internet Protocol (IP) affects just about all video-related industries — broadcast, post, news and live sports. The promise of inexpensive transmission of video, audio and metadata over ...
When the public switched telephone network (PSTN) was initially constructed, voice communication was the primary goal. However, as data communications such as fax, modem, and text became more ...
IPv6 is starting to show up in around the Internet. Adoption is slow, but with the magic number of 4 billion- plus IPv4 addresses about to be reached, IPv6 will see a much faster pace of adoption as ...
More Internet traffic is expected to be carried via tunnels as the Internet infrastructure migrates from IPv4, the current version of the Internet protocol, to the long-anticipated upgrade known as ...