In a subterranean labyrinth of aging pipes and bundled wires stretching for miles in every direction, these engineers are trying to make this city's densely packed communications networks less ...

What is a network protocol? Most textbook writers state something like this: A network protocol is a set of guidelines or standards for the operation of network devices, the methods of operation, and ...

In the AV industry, we often think of the delivery of audio or video in terms of three major components: the source, the network, and the receiver or playout device. Many researchers in the IT ...

Remember when the internet was just nascent and telecoms were investing heavily in expanding and upgrading their network infrastructure to support internet connectivity? They laid fiber-optic cables, ...

If Sept. 11, 2001, was a wake-up call for government officials about the state of the nation’s emergency communications, so was last year’s Hurricane Katrina, which offers many lessons about how to ...

Online outages are serious. Vendors lose money for every minute their users can’t reach their web services, and business productivity tanks when employees can’t access the web applications they rely ...