Bufferbloats—an amusing word for a less-than-delightful issue (we reported on these last year). A bufferbloat is the proliferation of more and more buffering of IP packets in routers, switches, modems ...

Modern switches and routers often use dynamic RAM (DRAM) in order to provide large buffer storage space. However, the effective bandwidth of DRAM is frequently a limiting factor in the design of ...

The data center market is growing large enough to justify its own set of requirements. These are implemented in a new breed of switching products expected beginning in 2008. The requirements emerged ...

Cisco routers use buffers as blocks of memory to handle data during the network routing process. As data flows through a network, different rates of transmission occur between routers and network ...

Clos network, a family of multistage networks, are attractive alternative for constructing scalable packet switches because of its distributed and modular design. The clos packet switching networks ...

If a little salt makes food taste better, then a lot must make it taste great, right? This logic is often applied in the digital domain, too. (My pet peeve is that TV shows and DVDs keep getting ...

Cross-platform network programming made easy. Creating a multiplayer game can be a lot of fun, but navigating the complexities of IP network programming can be a headache. That's kind of a strange ...

In the AV industry, we often think of the delivery of audio or video in terms of three major components: the source, the network, and the receiver or playout device. Many researchers in the IT ...