Modern switches and routers often use dynamic RAM (DRAM) in order to provide large buffer storage space. However, the effective bandwidth of DRAM is frequently a limiting factor in the design of ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Server virtualization is ...

Cisco routers use buffers as blocks of memory to handle data during the network routing process. As data flows through a network, different rates of transmission occur between routers and network ...

Just like every kind of compute job cannot be handled by a single type of microprocessor, the diversity of networking tasks in the datacenters of the world require a variety of different switch and ...

Bufferbloats—an amusing word for a less-than-delightful issue (we reported on these last year). A bufferbloat is the proliferation of more and more buffering of IP packets in routers, switches, modems ...

In the AV industry, we often think of the delivery of audio or video in terms of three major components: the source, the network, and the receiver or playout device. Many researchers in the IT ...

LOS ANGELES—This is the second installment of a contribution from Jim DeFilippis on SDI versus IP. For Part 1, see “Which Switch is Which?” The second tale-of-the-tape issue is delay or latency. There ...