Your internet service provider (ISP) brings the internet into your home through a modem. A router then converts that signal ...

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 ...

The purpose of the network layer is to help route messages between different local networks. Central to this layer is the concept of exclusive network addresses, where every terminal connected to the ...

Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it's built using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP has many features that make it ...

The Web pages you visit, the e-mail you read, the music you download and the radio stations you listen to on the Internet are all delivered to you by applications using TCP/IP. TCP/IP makes it ...

Authors Bhatt and Patel explain Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol, or iWARP, a joint project by Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Corp. and describe iWarp components and applications. The online ...

In the previous two articles, I described the hardware and software required to build an IoT device. These devices (the “Things” in the Internet of Things) are an essential part of an IoT system.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Learning about network protocols is one of the challenges facing any video professional moving ...

China, Huawei and Chinese carriers want to redesign a key aspect of the internet -- and while there may be some upsides, their ideas have raised some alarm bells. The Financial Times understands that ...