IETF
RSS IETFConfiguration Management Simplified
White Paper The IETF has recently standardized the NETCONF configuration management protocol and is currently in the process of standardizing a NETCONF-oriented data modeling language called YANG. These two new technologies promise... [03 Apr 2009]
Managed Dynamic VPN Service: Core Capacity Sharing Schemes for Improved VPN Performance
White Paper IETF proposed Provider Provisioned IP-VPN service is a well known managed service. Managed service framework enables a service provider to offer more demanding and revenue generating services. The paper first proposed a... [01 Apr 2009]
Ingate Firewall/SIParator SIP Security Best Practice
White Paper The SIP Protocol is defined as part of IETF RFCs starting with RFC 3261, and more, all located at www.ieft.org. Session Initiation Protocol is an Application Layer control (signaling) protocol for creating, modifying,... [23 Mar 2009]
Managing Call Flows Using SIP
White Paper SIP, defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), has been implemented within a number of systems, including Internet Protocol (IP)-based telephones, IP-based Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), and carrier networks. [18 Mar 2009]
Managing SIP Traffic With ZXTM
White Paper Although SIP is an IETF standard, many implementations and extensions exist and mutual compatibility between different user agents cannot always be assured. Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services are converging on SIP and RTP for... [07 Mar 2009]
Towards Scalable End-to-End QoS Provision for VoIP Applications
White Paper Recently, the IETF have proposed a new QoS architecture that implements IntServ over DiffServ in order to provide an end-to-end QoS for scalable networks. The growth of the Internet and the development of its new... [28 Nov 2008]
Towards XML Oriented Internet Management
White Paper Internet Management is based on IETF specifications that have been developed and used during the past 14 years: There are multiple versions and options of the management protocol (SNMP), two versions of the language for... [02 Nov 2008]
Malware in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks
White Paper The paper uses data collected from the large wireless LAN deployment at the 67th IETF meeting in San Diego, California as a case study. Malicious software (malware) is one of the largest threats facing the Internet today. [22 Oct 2008]
Open Shortest Path First
White Paper Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol developed for Internet Protocol (IP) networks by the interior gateway protocol (IGP) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The working group... [08 Oct 2008]
Cisco IPv6 Certification Testing
White Paper The requirements are generated using IETF RFC descriptions to ensure a standards-based approach. The term "IPv6 Capable Product" as used in this paper, means any product that meets the minimum set of mandated... [07 Oct 2008]
Bandwidth Constraint Models: A Performance Study With Preemption on Link Failures
White Paper Bandwidth constraint models have been a topic of intense discussions at the IETF meetings. Three conventional methods have been described in informational IETF RFCs and their performance on a single link... [19 Sep 2008]
VPN Remote Access Authentication: Enabling Remote Access Without Compromising Security
White Paper When the IPSec standards were published as Internet RFCs, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Security Working Group knew its job was far from finished. In two short years since the final version the IPSec... [10 Sep 2008]
SIP: Protocol Overview
White Paper SIP is being developed by the SIP Working Group, within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The protocol is published as IETF RFC 2543 and currently has the status of a proposed standard. The... [02 Sep 2008]
Sprint—Layer 2/Layer 3 Services Converged Over Common IP Backbone Via L2TPv3 in Cisco IOS Software
White Paper Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard is expected by the end of 2003. A network convergence strategy expected to get top attention from service providers in the next few years is the ability to offer traditional... [02 Sep 2008]
An End-to-End QoS Framework for 4G Mobile Heterogeneous Environments
White Paper The framework integrates layer two and layer three handovers by exploiting minimal additions to existing IETF and IEEE standards. Next Generation Networks (NGN) will be based upon the "all IP" paradigm. [18 Jul 2008]
