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LANs Local Area Networks

• What is protocol spoofing as it relates to WAN optimization?

  Learn in this expert response what protocol spoofing is and how it can be used as a WAN optimization technique. Continue Reading

• Network configuration management: Old tools, new tricks

  With a few lines of your favorite scripting language, you could touch every machine in your environment without building anything new. Continue Reading

• session border controller (SBC)

  A session border controller (SBC) is a dedicated hardware device or software application that governs the manner in which phone calls are initiated, conducted and terminated on a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network. Phone calls are referred ... Continue Reading

• New SDN book looks beyond OpenFlow and central control: Author Q&A

  A new SDN book posits that OpenFlow and central control are important, but open source software networking and programmability are just as crucial. Continue Reading

• Multi-layer SDN: Programmability across packet and optical layers

  Multi-layer SDN lets engineers use controllers for centralized programmability across both packet and optical layers for a more efficient WAN. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • VLAN (virtual LAN)
  • network switch
  • dynamic and static
  • FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

  • coaxial cable
  • OSI model (Open Systems Interconnection)
  • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
  • subnet (subnetwork)

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• ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM)

  Ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) is a specialized type of high-speed memory that searches its entire contents in a single clock cycle, with the term “ternary” referring to its ability to store and query data using three different inputs: 0,...Continue Reading

• Mapping your wireless local area network: How to make your WLAN shine

  In this essential guide, get acquainted with wireless local area network basics and uncover steps you can take to improve your WLAN infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Will the cloud exchange be the next big ecosystem player?

  An emerging branch of the cloud ecosystem, the cloud exchange, has the potential to address many concerns about the cloud broker model.Continue Reading

• The evolution of network control

  The degree of network control IT pros possess is expanding with new tools and solutions. Learn the latest about network management and monitoring.Continue Reading

• Open cloud: Just a buzzword or the future of infrastructure?

  Embracing an open cloud means there is no technology lock-in, no contractual lock-in and no services lock-in.Continue Reading

• Overcoming network functions virtualization implementation challenges

  Carriers need network functions virtualization implementation prespecification, so they'll look to TM Forum and cloud management models for help.Continue Reading

• Infrastructure services should be means, not end, for IaaS providers

  As IaaS prices continue to fall and dilute already thin margins, IaaS providers must reposition their offering as a cloud services building block.Continue Reading

• OVSDB (Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol)

  The Open vSwitch Database Management Protocol (OVSDB) is an OpenFlow configuration protocol that is designed to manage Open vSwitch implementations.Continue Reading

• jumbo frames

  A jumbo frame is an Ethernet frame with a payload greater than the standard maximum transmission unit (MTU) of 1,500 bytes. Continue Reading

• VMware network virtualization will spell trouble for Cisco, eventually

  The VMware network virtualization platform won't end the Cisco-VMware relationship, but it could hurt Cisco in the data center over the long term.Continue Reading