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 ...

In past lessons, we discussed some important numbers used in IP networks. One was 1460, the standard maximum application payload of a typical packet. The second was 1518, the maximum size of Ethernet ...