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  • App accelerators wrangle over SIP

    Aviv said that SIP Director can also act as a carrier-grade VoIP bridge, proxy and gateway, bringing interoperability and transport conversion on both the core (which could be SIP or UDP, say), and call (TLS or TCP) sides.
  • Group Test of iSCSI underwhelms

    The iSCSI Consortium at UNH-IOL has been responsible for numerous changes and adjustments to the standard since 2001.iSCSI is currently used, the lab claims, as a backup for Fibre Channel networks that pipe massive amounts of the world's…

Latest Features

  • How clouds and fibre has remade the data centre

    The words used to describe it are: lossless transport; non-blocking; low latency; guaranteed delivery; multipath and congestion management. Lossless transport and guaranteed delivery mean they don't discard packets.
  • Brocade deal to help drive data-centre transition

    They represent completely different technical approaches to combining Ethernet and storage transport protocols. Reasonable people will disagree," he said.Like Fibre Channel, FCoE does not use TCP/IP, the basic communication protocol of the Internet…
  • FCoE - or iSCSI?

    Emulex' Taufik Ma, intelligent networking products VP, said: "iSCSI provides block storage over Ethernet using a unique protocol to carry SCSI commands, and a relatively expensive TCP/IP transport. FCoE means using Fibre Channel protocol over…
  • What you need to know about IPv6

    IPsec, the time-proven standard for securing IP communications by encrypting and/or authenticating all IP packets at the network layer, is an integral part of the base protocol suite in IPv6.IPsec is more flexible than other encryption standards…
  • A protocol to measure IP performance

    The Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol (TWAMP) defines a flexible method for measuring round-trip IP performance among any two devices in a network that support the standard.With TWAMP, enterprise IT managers can effectively measure the complete…
  • Protocol weds Ethernet and ATA drives

    The ATA-over-Ethernet storage protocol (AoE) combines Ethernet and low-cost disks to create a simple way to connect storage to a network.Much like the Fibre Channel storage protocol, which uses SCSI disk commands over fibre optics, AoE is designed…
 

How-Tos

  • How to manage traffic on your home network

    If you have a slow uplink speed (e.g.less than 512Kbit/sec.enabling Dynamic Fragmentation configures the router to break up large packets into smaller ones for smoother performance.With a router that uses Ubicom's StreamEngine (see the router's…
  • Dealing with the 'technically challenged'

    As more non-traditional equipment migrates to IP network connectivity, technicians used to dealing with older connectivity methods are forced to learn an entirely new transport mechanism. I found it hard to believe that the card access company…
  • Network Address Translation: working with applications

    If you have to use transport mode, where IPSec is host to host, NAT will change the TCP packet and have to recalculate the checksum. But because TCP checksums are computed from a pseudo-header containing source and destination IP address (prepended…

Reviews

  • Cisco OTV review

    Cisco OTV review Paul Venezia Virtualisation tool to connect data centres over IP review,reviews Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualisation helps make multiple physical data centres look like one logical data centre.
  • Windows Server 2008

    As an example, Microsoft AD Federated Services improves 'extranet' ties between organisations that can manage external system users in a highly definable way for use of files and application services among the organisations.Terminal Services can…
  • Capsa network capture and analyser

    A summary of events at the top of the pane is divided into sections covering all events, just application events, just transport events, and just network events and listing each observed type of event and the total times it was seen.Clicking on an…
  • Riverbed Steelhead with RiOS 3

    RiOS 2.1 performed NFS optimisation via data and transport streaming; RiOS 3 does NFS application streaming, allowing for read-ahead and metadata pre-fetching. The 5520 (offering 155Mbit/s of optimised throughput and 15,000 TCP connections) and the…
 
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