Basic introduction to the IP based switched network.

Data-link switching (DLSw) provides a means of transporting IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and network basic input/output system (NetBIOS traffic over an IP network. It serves as an alternative to source-route br ...

The specification’s components define how audio and video should be transmitted, thereby providing real-time applications with the Quality of Service (QoS) they need.

The intention with this section is to provide a reference covering the basics of data communications from handshaking through the problems of interference to designing networks and selecting communications media.

In an attempt to reduce communication costs, many networks provide a way for multiple terminals to share a single communication line. Instead of each terminal being connected directly to the central computer by a separa ...

Manchester encoding is a synchronous clock encoding technique used by the OSI physical layer to encode the clock and data of a synchronous bit stream.

It permits our server to get away with transmitting only a single stream, regardless of how many clients have requested it. Whenever this stream traverses a multicast-enabled switch or router, it is simply copied—b ...