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Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) is a technology that lets users make calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a standard phone line. VoIP technology converts the voice signal ...

The military is finding that voice over Internet protocol is an effective technology for secure collaboration and information sharing on converged networks-those that combine voice, video and data.

The RIPv1 routing protocol is being used to launch DDoS attacks against many hosts on the Internet, according to an Akamai threat report Routing Information Protocol (RIP), an obsolete network ...

Engineers at Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will shore up one of the biggest holes in internet privacy that many don’t know even exists. Dubbed ...

With the growth of the Internet, many were equipped with the ability to address machines. As a result, there are now two main modem protocols: SLIP, an old protocol that is low in controls; and PPP, ...

The internet is an ever-growing network of connected devices that spans the world. These devices can share information with each other through cables that stretch between towns, cities, countries ...

Google says it plans to propose HTTP2-over-QUIC to the IETF as a new Internet standard in the future. In some ways, this mirrors Google’s work with SPDY. There, too, the company first prototyped ...