packets in comment and analysis
Criminal IT: Should you trust the internet?
Comment There is no guarantee of delivery time, for example, simply what might be thought of as 'best effort' delivery for those messages which might form streaming media or voice over IP traffic - and for every other form of data, from email to... [27 Jan 2005]
VoIP primer: How it works - and what the jargon means
Comment The problems of packet loss, delay and jitter are exacerbated when voice traffic intermingles with packets from other applications. Consequently, VoIP applications buffer packets to allow them to be... [10 Feb 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Circuit or packet, clean or dirty?
Comment For non-real time applications such as email and delayed voice and video we can use packet switching where the digital information is broken up into small packets and directed one at a time, across the planet, using any... [14 May 2003]
Ipv6: An acronym to shake the networked world
Comment For example, if packets are dealt with in various sub networks with different priorities and so the prioritising must be carried along routes that have already been covered. Therefore routers can process... [19 Mar 2001]
Is the game up for ISDN?
Comment However, ADSL cannot maintain bandwidth capacity over long distances, unlike ISDN, which uses line drivers to push packets along the wires in both directions. Finally, for corporates who need to send large... [10 Nov 1998]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Out-of-the-box options
Comment This has led to a proliferation of technology for checking identities of users and the content of data packets. These appliances are specifically designed to do one thing well: they make sure packets of... [09 Jul 2004]
VoIP: Don't forget about security
Comment I'm waiting to see the security tool which is a network packet sniffer that reassembles packets on the fly," Murray says. Before the overhaul, the company's network was badly hit by the Blaster worm, which flooded... [09 Aug 2005]
The dos and don'ts of VoIP security
Comment Additional tools that will help networks in case of any attack are intrusion detection and prevention systems, which scan for rogue incoming packets, and straightforward antivirus software which can help prevent any... [04 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Hype and Skype
Comment On the other hand, when you send an email message via the internet your bits are transmitted in discrete packets that are often routed very differently, packet by packet. So the arrival times of packets... [21 Apr 2004]
The Gadget Showdown: The Confrontation in the Next Generation
Comment Packet switching chops data up into little chunks (packets) which can be mixed in with everyone else's packets and sent over a shared network. They're the nearest thing to 3G you can get if you walk into... [27 Jun 2001]
Staff value training over pay
Comment Bigger pay packets don't fire them up - training opportunities and clear career paths do. IT staff are obviously a well-heeled, motivated bunch. At least that's according to an IDC skills survey released this week of 440... [26 Jul 2001]
Leader: The VoIP evolution
Leader When it comes to sending voice packets over Internet Protocol networks - aka IP telephony or, more often nowadays, voice over IP or VoIP - it's no different. Technological change is rarely sudden. More often it's a... [15 Apr 2005]
John Lamb's week: E-marketers say show me the money
Comment Senior marketing managers in dot-com organisations or ecommerce departments can expect to earn over £7,000 more than those working in traditional companies do, while middle managers earn around £3,000 more in their pay... [21 Sep 2001]
What's the bottom line value of IP?
Comment In fact, putting not just voice but data packets onto a single, unified IP infrastructure is still seen by UK enterprises as a complex technical, cultural and budgetary process. It's all very well talking about the... [23 Sep 2003]
AGM rage - don't count on it
Comment It's also the day they get their pay packets approved. Once every five years the government has to leave the cosy confines of Whitehall and Westminster and actually meet the public. Elections are sometimes dull affairs,... [18 Jul 2001]
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