STP is the short form for Spanning Tree Protocol & RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol), MSTP (Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol) are all advanced/ improved implementations of STP. In this article,...
Category: Protocols
We all know that the IEEE 802.11n standard for Wi-Fi supports up to 600 Mbps for creating a wireless network. But are all 802.11n compliant devices same? Is the 600...
What is the right notation – IP Phones (or) SIP Phones? SIP, has become such a common protocol for voice communications over IP that we tend to think that SIP...
The Network Access to the IT network of any organization needs to be controlled right at the network edge – where the devices connect to the IP Network. In this...
This article is about the advantages and disadvantages of using sFlow technology for network monitoring and enabling basic level network security. We discuss about the multi-vendor support for sFlow, its...
In this article we look at what is sFlow, what are the components of sFlow, how sFlow helps big networks to monitor the network usage and security parameters through packet...
If there is a huge network – it needs to be managed! That’s where SNMP comes in. With a plethora of network devices now supporting this protocol, it has become...
We all have heard a lot about the RADIUS server. We know it is sitting somewhere in the network, authenticating all the users. What exactly is this RADIUS server? How...
This article gives a short introduction to Syslog and Syslog server, how they help in monitoring of the network devices by storing and retrieving the logs generated by the network...
This article introduces the QoS mechanisms followed by a wireless network like WMM(Wireless Multi-Media) and WMM-SA(Wireless Multi-Media Scheduled Access) which are both standards based and help wireless networks to reliably...
This article presents a small introduction to LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol – explaining what it is and why you need to implement LDAP directory in an enterprise/organization. It...
This article is to explain what is IPv6, how does it differ from IPV4, what was the necessity to come up with IPv6, a basic IPv6 address and its compositions,...
This article explains the IEEE 802.11n standard for wireless (Wi-Fi) networks, what is the bandwidth supported by this standard, what is the distance covered by access points employing 802.11n, the...
This article is to introduce the Infiniband technology (which is commonly used in High Performance Computing for Inter Process Communication to enable server consolidation) and discuss the advantages of the...