Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...

The additional packet potentially enables the network equipment at the receiving end to reconstitute the lost packets and hence negates the actual packet loss.

Here at Spring 2005 VON, I've been meeting with a lot of testing companies that help enterprises build and run their VoIP networks. To a person, they maintain that latency and dropped packets are ...

This article explains different ways that hackers can exploit the traffic flowing across your network. But there are ways, such as baiting a machine and IPSec encryption to counter these techniques.

SDN management tools include TAP monitoring applications and network packet brokers (NPB), which negotiate network traffic from multiple SPAN ports and manipulate it to allow more efficient use of ...

We explore the best packet sniffers in the business to guide you in choosing the right one for your network.

Ciena is bolstering its Packet Networking portfolio with new Adaptive IP capabilities, coherent optics, and purpose-built hardware platforms ...

Coriant, a global supplier of SDN-enabled end-to-end packet optical networking solutions, today announced it has expanded its metro packet optical net ...

I'm getting a lot of ARP broadcast packets on my network that are clogging up the bandwidth. Using Wireshark here's an example of what I'm seeing: 671 73.961012 Dell_80:a9:13 Broadcast ARP 42 Who ...