XP includes a media access control (MAC) bridge using the Spanning Tree Algorithm so everything around a user can operate as a single IP subnet. Chris Setz is a well-known networking professional and frequent contributor to silicon.com TV programming.
A major effort has been put into making metro Ethernet resilient, with the MEF specifications providing an alternative to Ethernet's "spanning tree algorithm", which will allow the networks to recover from a broken link within 50 milliseconds...
Real life viruses often start in a lab as proof of concept or under the proviso that they will be examined within a controlled environment but experience has told us that it's not just in the movies that things can go wrong.
Shoppers warned about the dangers of PCs under the Christmas tree At this time of year we become inundated with press releases from companies all hoping to catch us off guard when we're susceptible to an easy story with a tenuous Christmas angle.
Leakage of radioactive material at Sellafield tells another story. In real life, skilled designers build systems that cater for things going wrong, as they inevitably will. The machines are only manifestations of human intentions and have no life...
By virtue of the purity of glass and laser light, signals were soon spanning more than 100km without repeaters and digital switches could be located in far fewer densities than ever before. As a result people seem to be on a high about something an...
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