Security Bank about a year ago realized it wouldn’t be a prudent move to incur the costs of upgrading its connections to two branch offices from 56K bit/sec to a T-1 – without first trying to get ...

Nothing makes an IT pro quite as queasy as unexplained network performance issues. When an executive is blowing up your phone ...

Phil Hippensteel breaks down the concept of bandwidth, one of AV-over-IP’s most common terms. How much do you know about it? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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Multicast and broadcast traffic could be straining your network, and it's impossible to see.

Update, July 11, 2017: We’ve added some additional tips and tricks for monitoring the performance your ISP is delivering throughout this article. Forget that bass; in the digital world, it’s all about ...

If you already know what your business will look like a year from now—what the market demand will be, how your customers will respond, and the technologies that will be available to serve them—then ...

Speedier Ethernet has pretty much satisfied LAN bandwidth needs, but QoS has come to the rescue in the WAN. When a drain chronically runs slow even though it isn’t plugged, it’s time to get a bigger ...

Last year, Amazon announced its Sidewalk network, a new low-bandwidth, long-distance wireless protocol it developed to help connect smart devices inside and — maybe even more importantly — outside of ...

As the networking industry makes a continued return to “normal” following the pandemic-generated bump of 2020, research suggests it is about to make a step change. According to a study from global ...