Most service providers operate two separate and distinct packet networks, each with its own technologies, organizations and mandates. Connection-oriented networks are based on asynchronous transfer ...

This article originally appeared in TV Technology. When it comes to audio over IP, one area that seems to cause a substantial amount of confusion is whether a technology works at Layer 2 or Layer 3.

Under the alliance, unveiled this week, the two companies will leverage their technologies to offer new and existing customers heightened layers of network security. Devin Redmond, director of product ...

Agilent’s N2X multiservice tester combines three instruments into one. Combining a router tester, bit-error-rate tester (BERT), and storage-area network (SAN) tester, the N2X tests Internet Protocol ...

Abstraction is kind of a big deal in software-defined networking (SDN). It is a useful tool in simplifying and effectively shielding the complexity of the network’s internal attributes to enable rapid ...

Your SNMP-based management system discovers failed routers, physical interfaces and circuits. But, if you’re running an IP network, what about snafus in the control plane that are not so easy to ...