The technical name of a frame of data transmitted over the data link layer (layer 2) in a communications network. Ethernet and Token Ring are examples of this layer. Many people neither use the term ...
Bandwidth represents the theoretical maximum capacity, while the data rate (or throughput) is the actual, real-world speed ...
The PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) multiplexing/demultiplexing discussed in RFC 3153 is designed to reduce the size of the PPP header to increase throughput. PPP ...
In the last newsletter, we continued a discussion of discarding voice vs. data packets. This time we’ll continue that discussion with a proposal for how data transmission could be greatly enhanced by ...
Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet. Network packets are small units of data that are sent from ...