A team of researchers from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe, have devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times -- without increasing ...

A packet of data that never reaches its destination. For example, if the network becomes congested and the traffic exceeds the momentary holding capacity (buffer space) of the router, packets will be ...

When network problems seem to defy the laws of physics, you'd better know your way around the dark region below layer 3 Long, long ago, before I could tell the difference between a /20 and a /30, a ...

Interface packet loss provides indications of link problems that shouldn’t go ignored. But then you have to decide on an alerting threshold that indicates a problem without creating too many false ...

Enterprises are deploying more security, monitoring and acceleration tools on their networks today. More data at higher velocities is coming at these tools and in a variety forms, including voice, ...