At trade shows, I occasionally walk into a booth and discover a product I really want to understand and appreciate. I am especially interested in how the traffic it sends or receives affects the ...

I had an assignment at university that dealt with the size of a message after being sent through two different types of networks with different packet sizes and network headers. That's all we were ...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is the descriptor for the technology used to carry digitised voice over an IP data network. VoIP requires two classes of protocols: a signaling protocol such as SIP, H.323 or MGCP ...

A typical User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol (UDP/IP) header contains 20 bytes of IP header and eight bytes of UDP header. While UDP headers contain source and destination UDP port addresses, ...

Packet switching is the fundamental protocol that lets the Internet and Local Area Networks function in their decentralized, user-directed, constantly evolving ways. The idea is to group data to be ...

Miss Parts I and II? No need to search or stress–they're right here:Part I Part II. IPv6 Packet Format br>The structure of the IP packet header was modified in IPv6. These changes reflect some of the ...

A network packet is a basic unit of data that is transferred over a computer network, typically a packet-switched network, such as the internet. Before data like files, images, videos or emails are ...

What is IP fragmentation, why is it important, and do people understand it? The answer to that last question is "not as well as they think". This article will also answer the rest of those questions ...

Computer engineers learn early on that a core set of protocols are critical to networks. Some of the most important protocols include Internet Protocol (IP), Transaction Control Protocol (TCP), ...