AWS connects its data centers with passive Shuffleboxes and “sprays” data quasi-randomly through the network.

According to Amazon’s overview, RNG has been the default routing architecture for most new AWS data centers since April, ...

Shortest path algorithms form the backbone of network optimisation, providing solutions for the minimum‐cost routes between nodes in a graph. Classical approaches such as Dijkstra’s algorithm and the ...

In IP communications, the concept of sessions has become second nature. Modern PBXs and video conferencing systems are built around the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). At the network edge, session ...

We have recently spoken about IP routing, but there is something else that needs our attention, and it is all about the types of routes found in a routers routing table. It might sound confusing but ...

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