We have recently spoken about IP routing, but there is something else that needs our attention, and it is all about the types of routes found in a routers routing table. It might sound confusing but ...

Since 2000, Menlo Worldwide Forwarding (formerly Emery Worldwide) has faced a particularly challenging business environment that has been exacerbated by a weakened economy, the events of September 11, ...

What is Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)? Why learn about it? Why use it? ….. This article is going to be a “beginning”… an “introduction” into Bidirectional Forwarding Detection. First we ...

The third layer of the OSI Model, the network layer, is where most network engineers focus their time and expertise. As Darragh commented in my post on the data link layer, Layer 2 is cool but Layer 3 ...

IP networks were not designed to repair failures in sub-second intervals, but applications such as VoIP increasingly are driving the need for rapid failure detection and correction. Traditional ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — NextHop Technologies Inc. is adding Layer 2 switching software to its popular GateD Next Generation Carrier 2.0 routing software suite. The move has applications in both ...