Networks function and flourish because they deliver reliable and fast communication over large distances. And while people often marvel at the speed, it's the reliability -- made possible through the ...

If you have heard about smart homes, you may have come across the term Z-Wave. Many people wonder what it means and how it fits into home technology. Z-Wave is used in many smart devices, but it can ...

Most people who have written networking software are familiar with the TCP and UDP protocols. These are used to connect distributed applications and allow messages to flow between them. These ...

I promised to deliver a preview of the new OCP-IP book written by David Schwaderer and here it is. I will be presenting three parts of the book from chapters 1 through 3. Thanks to Ian Mackintosh at ...

When part of a team, your group can become more capable than a single individual, but only if your team can work together and communicate effectively. Having members of a group talk over each other ...

The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards body announced in March that it will incorporate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) into its messaging specifications. According to Gartner, this move ...

The Digital Multiplex (DMX) protocol is everywhere in lighting, so if you’re fiddling with lighting, it’s not going to be long before you start to have questions about the versatile lighting control ...

As chip designs grow larger and more complex, they become increasingly difficult to manufacture as a single piece of silicon. Yields (the percentage of properly functioning chips from a semiconductor ...