lan ethernet
Technical White Paper for VPLS
White Paper The VPLS technology is a technology used to provide virtual Ethernet service over the existing WAN. Through membership discovery, PW establishment and maintenance, and MAC-based address forwarding in the VSI, it... [01 Oct 2008]
802.11 Wireless LAN Security and the Cisco SWAN Program
White Paper The Ethernet Era has brought the fairly reliable cabling. Get the cabling done right, and experience few to none of the almost daily outages some of remember (be they from Thin Ethernet, Thick... [01 Oct 2008]
The Case for Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
White Paper The virtual LAN is a recent addition to the history of Ethernet. In this whitepaper you will learn about the evolution of Ethernet, the reasons VLANs were introduced, and the ways that... [30 Sep 2008]
Carrier-Grade Ethernet for Packet Core Networks
White Paper Ethernet is a permanent success story, extending its reach from LAN and metro areas now also into core networks. Gbit/s Ethernet will be the key enabler for a new generation of true... [11 Sep 2008]
Testing Power Over Ethernet (PoE) Enabled Systems: Understanding Potential Impacts on the Certification and Testing Process
White Paper Power over Ethernet (PoE) is an innovative that is increasingly being used increasingly to power IP telephones, wireless LAN access points, network cameras, and other network appliances. Network... [11 Sep 2008]
MPLS VPN Services: PW, VPLS and BGP MPLS/IP VPNs
White Paper Organizations have been demanding Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) instead of costly leased lines and, Ethernet and IP services instead of DS1 and DS3 services from their service providers. MPLS is now the best way for... [11 Sep 2008]
High Rate Packets Transmission on Ethernet LAN Using Commodity Hardware
White Paper Scope of this paper is to report on the measurements performed to test the reliability of high rate data transmission over copper Gigabit Ethernet, by using commodity hardware, for the LHCb online system. [11 Sep 2008]
Carrier-Grade Ethernet: Extending Ethernet Into Next Generation Metro Networks
White Paper Ethernet is the most popular LAN technology in use today due to the factors such as speed, cost and ease of installation. The question becomes now whether Ethernet also offers the... [11 Sep 2008]
All You Need to Know About Power Over Ethernet (PoE) and the IEEE 802.3af Standard
White Paper Power over Ethernet (also known as PoE) is a revolutionary technology that allows IP telephones, wireless LAN Access Points, Security network cameras and other IP-based terminals to receive power, in... [11 Sep 2008]
The Ethernet Physical Layer as Used in Resilient Packet Ring Systems
White Paper MAC Bridging (IEEE 802.1D), Virtual LAN technology (IEEE 802.1Q) and Class of Service definitions (IEEE 802.1p) have all been instrumental in the continued dominance of Ethernet in Local Area Networks. [11 Sep 2008]
SBM Protocol for Providing Real-Time QoS in Ethernet LANs
White Paper To show how SBM is useful for guaranteeing requested quality of service for real-time admitted flows, the paper simulated the bandwidth reservation and message scheduling in an Ethernet switch for different input flows... [11 Sep 2008]
Future-Proofing the Wiring Closet With Resilient and Scalable Modular Switch/Routers
White Paper Perhaps the most important transition stems from the emergence of the enterprise IP network and IP/Ethernet LAN as the converged infrastructure for both data networking applications and real-time... [10 Sep 2008]
Low Latency 10 GbE Switching for Data Center, Cluster and Storage Interconnect
White Paper While Ethernet is the de facto technology for the general purpose LAN, it has been widely considered as a sub-optimal switching fabric for very high performance cluster interconnect IPC (e.g.for those... [10 Sep 2008]
Exploring Wireless Technologies
White Paper The Access Point in turn interconnects cells of a wireless LAN and also connects to a wired Ethernet LAN through some sort of cable connection. The keystone to a wireless... [02 Sep 2008]
HP ProCurve buys networking specialist
News According to market-research firm Dell'Oro, HP is the number-two player in the worldwide market for Ethernet switches and ports, after Cisco, which is the clear number one. In May, Colubris revealed what it claimed was... [12 Aug 2008]