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As I mentioned last time, L2TPv3 has a plethora of capabilities, including the capability to be used for remote access VPNs, the capability to transport a number of Layer-2 protocols in a pseudowire ...

Ethernet and Sonet are on a crash course. With Ethernet continuing to push its way out of the enterprise into the access and metro sectors, developers of Sonet equipment are being pushed to map ...

Outfitted with four independent Gigabit Ethernet ports, thePacketExpert from GL Communications connects to a PC through a USB 2.0interface to provide Ethernet/IP testing at wire speed. The portable ...

Figuring out the amount of bandwidth a video signal requires on an IP network isn’t terribly hard, but it does require some familiarity with the underlying technologies and packet formats. Getting the ...

Ethernet is a frame-based data communication technology that employs variable-sized frames to carry a data payload. This contrasts with long-haul Optical Transport Networks (OTN) that use fixed-sized ...

The growing presence of the IP protocol at the heart of telecom networks is putting pressure on vendors and service providers to optimize the way user traffic is managed. One resulting change is to ...

The bandwidth needed for VoIP transmission will depend on a few factors: the compression technology, packet overhead, network protocol used and whether silence suppression is used. This tip ...