Engineer, entrepreneur and inventor Bob Metcalfe once described how the value of a network grew as the number of Ethernet cards increased. The concept also works for applications. While the cost of a ...

In both networking and security we are forever opening up TCP/IP packets, inspecting the content, and then taking action. This “action” could be passing the packets to a downstream router, ...

We’re going to begin with computer networks, and how they grew from small groups of connected computers on LAN networks to eventually larger worldwide networks like the ARPANET and even the Internet ...

In the first part of our round-up of the Dallas meeting of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) project’s Global Forum conference in October 2025, we looked at the technological ...

Data transfer rate is a measurement of the amount of data sent between two points on a network in a given time period. It is a highly important concept in modern business networking, with high data ...