Hancock, N.H. – A neural-network approach to packet sizing under development at SmartPackets Inc. could give wireless networks a boost in throughput without any hardware enhancements. The system has ...

The use of IP for audio and broadcast transport applications has gained increasing attention as the quality of service (QoS) of packet switched networks continually improves. The lure of reduced costs ...

At trade shows, I occasionally walk into a booth and discover a product I really want to understand and appreciate. I am especially interested in how the traffic it sends or receives affects the ...

Last time, we delved into the reasons that packet loss has such an enormous impact on application performance over the WAN in the first place. This time we’ll begin to look at the ways that various ...

In the last two newsletters (see here and here) we commented on the fact that data replication was significantly different than other data applications and that it could be negatively impacted by ...

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it achieved 2.5Gbps packet transmission in the downlink while moving at 20km/h. The fourth-generation (4G) radio access field experiment took place in Yokosuka, ...

A practical look at Dual Tone Multi Frequency and RFC 2833/4733 It's easy to get lost in the technological babble of our industry. We are awash in acronyms, product names, standards (real and pseudo), ...

The communications technology of the public Internet, local area networks (LANs) and most wide area networks (WANs). The Internet Protocol (IP) is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and the terms "IP ...