The top communications equipment manufacturers saw their market share increase in the second quarter as the overall market dropped significantly, according to a recent study. Cisco Systems held on to first place with 14.6 per cent of the $27.3bnn...
To improve how routers direct traffic, Roughgarden suggested they consider not only which route is least congested, but also how sending packets in that direction would affect that path. At that time, the router will settle on a previously...
In April 1997, a small Virginia internet service provider misconfigured its router, leading it to advertise that it was the best route to the entire internet. However, a misconfigured router, or one that has been compromised by an online intruder...
A new element in the updated IOS is improved protection against denial of service attacks, which flood networks with millions of packets causing routers and servers to freeze under the pressure. Platon said the company is working on a product that...
It acts as a firewall, router, switch, wireless access point, and can handle not only data but also voice, images and videos," he said. It acts as a firewall, router, switch wireless access point, and can handle not only data but also voice, images...
Just as a web page can be broken up into 'packets', audio can be sampled with a digital signal processor (DSP), 'packetised' and sent out over an IP-based network as another data stream. When packets arrive at their destination, they can arrive in...