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LANs Local Area Networks

• VXLAN gateway (Virtual Extensible VLAN gateway)

  A VXLAN gateway is a solution that allows a virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN) to communicate with another network, particularly a virtual LAN (VLAN). Continue Reading

• Podcast: SDN and OpenFlow pitfalls and potential at TIP 2013

  Executive editor Rivka Gewirtz Little reports live from Honolulu, where the latest news about SDN and OpenFlow creates buzz among TIP attendees. Continue Reading

• Green cloud computing quiz: Raise your energy efficiency grade

  Take our green cloud computing quiz to see if you are doing enough to conserve energy. Reducing energy use helps the earth and saves you money. Continue Reading

• A primer on northbound APIs: Their role in a software-defined network

  This primer explores the concept of SDN northbound APIs, their key benefits, who's using them and why. Continue Reading

• Floodlight primer: An OpenFlow controller

  In software-defined networks, engineers use Floodlight controllers to manage physical and virtual devices -- and each traffic flow running between them. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
  • bandwidth
  • Asynchronous
  • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

  • TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
  • computer hardware
  • Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
  • UDP (User Datagram Protocol)

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• Big data initiative essentials: Adopting analytics strategies

  This guide contains what you need to know for devising big data initiatives and analytics strategies.Continue Reading

• Hotspot 2.0 primer: Another step toward Wi-Fi/cellular integration

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• Locator/ID Separation Protocol primer: Routing for seamless migration

  Once the Locator/ID Separation Protocol is finalized, engineers will have routing that moves VMs or mobile devices without changing device software.Continue Reading

• Quiz: How can you control VM sprawl in the cloud?

  Managing virtual machines can be a struggle for providers, so it's important to know how to control VM sprawl in the cloud. Test your knowledge with this quiz.Continue Reading

• VPN UTM vendor comparison: Evaluating secure remote access features

  View this VPN UTM vendor comparison and understand how to manage your virtual private network infrastructure as part of a unified threat management solution.Continue Reading

• ‘Computer Networks' PDF: Free chapter download

  Download this computer networking PDF excerpt from "Computer Networks," a book that addresses the key principles of computer networks. In Chapter 1, Foundation, learn how local and wide area networks (WANs) are now built to connect more than ...Continue Reading

• Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)

  Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a Cisco Systems technology that improves the performance of applications on a wide area network (WAN). (Continued...)Continue Reading

• enterprise WAN

  An enterprise WAN is a corporate network that connects geographically dispersed users areas that could be anywhere in the world.Continue Reading

• MHz

  The megahertz, abbreviated MHz, is a unit of alternating current (AC) or electromagnetic (EM) wave frequency equal to one million hertz (1,000,000 Hz).Continue Reading

• data link layer

  The Data-Link Layer is the protocol layer in a program that handles the moving of data in and out across a physical link in a network.Continue Reading