In the last newsletter we started discussing the protocol stack used for transporting voice over IP. Today we’ll move to the control for those conversations. By the way, before we get all those e-mail ...

In this tutorial we will discuss the concept of Ports and how they work with IP addresses. If you have not read our article on IP addresses and need a brush up, you can find the article here. If you ...

You've installed a VPN. It's not quite as fast as you'd like. You could switch to another service, but maybe there's a simple speedup trick you can try first. Open ...

The transport layer protocols provide connection oriented sessions and reliable data delivery services. This paper seeks to reflect a comparative analysis between the two transport layer protocols, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In this first installment of a two-part lesson, we will discuss the difference between IP video ...

There are two main data transfer protocols -- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). If you only had to know one fact about each protocol, it's that TCP is slower ...

Citrix XenDesktop’s HDX and VMware View’s PCoIP offer the same basic functionality — providing video, sound, and peripheral support to remote desktop users — but they each use a different transport ...

I think I've just uncovered a design flaw in the new cluster I'm putting together. It's a test cluster made with old parts; I'm using it to test new versions of my parallel message passing software.

An industry group of the world's biggest DNS service providers has agreed on a plan to improve the state of the DNS ecosystem by forcing certain configuration changes upon the smaller server operators ...

Security practitioners for decades have advised people to limit DNS queries against their DNS servers to only use UDP port 53. The reality is that DNS queries can also use TCP port 53 if UDP port 53 ...