Do you remember when we used multi-protocol routing for IPX, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP running on the same network? In the 1980s and early 1990s many enterprises had multiple protocols running on the ...

A wide area network connects the far-flung employees of North Slope Borough, Alaska, but until recently traffic over the WAN’s satellite links moved too slowly to make sending e-mail practical, never ...

As more and more data moves across WANs and into the cloud, making the most of your WAN connections is key Last week, I explained the growing importance of understanding TCP basics — specifically, TCP ...

Take advantage of TCP/IP options to optimize data transmission Your email has been sent By Alex Kuznetsov, Alex Plant, and Alexander Tormasov Last time, we explained how the TCP_CORK option can ...

The data transfer in a TCP/IP network is usually block-based. From a programmer’s point of view, sending data means issuing a series of “send data block” requests. On a system level, sending an ...