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White Paper This document is a map through the jungle of internetworking infrastructure, particularly focusing on how Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing have combined to form the powerful Layer 3... [25 Feb 2004]
Layer 3 Switching for Secure Networks
White Paper The adoption of layer 3 switches with security functionality simplifies network management and reduces cost of ownership and can also provide resiliency. Enterprises also are benefiting from WAN access functionality in... [04 Aug 2008]
Layer 2 Extension Between Remote Data Centers - Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Virtual Switching System and L2VPNoGRE
White Paper Cisco recommends retaining Layer 2 domains within each data center. However to meet new application framework requirements or for migration purposes, the Enterprise may have to extend Layer 2 beyond the... [07 Oct 2008]
Passport 8600 Routing Switch - Layer 2/3 Performance
White Paper Network managers deploying enterprise-class Layer 2/3 routing switches understand the importance of line-rate throughput. With the emergence of VoIP and other latency sensitive applications, line rate throughput and low... [25 Feb 2004]
Layer 3 Switching: An Introduction
White Paper This paper is a map through the jungle of internetworking infrastructure, particularly focusing on how Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 routing have combined to form the powerful Layer 3... [25 Feb 2004]
C-Snoop: Cross Layer Approach to Improving TCP Performance Over Wired and Wireless Networks
White Paper TCP continues to be the most important transport layer communication protocol. Of those solutions, the localized link layer schemes, such as Snoop, SACK-Aware-Snoop and SNACK, has been shown to be the... [06 Dec 2007]
Arbutus: Network-Layer Load Balancing for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper Significant advantages can be obtained by embedding a load balancing scheme at the network layer, as this paper shows with the design and implementation of Arbutus, a novel routing protocol for wireless sensor networks... [10 Jul 2008]
Application-Layer Security: What It Takes to Enable the Next Generation of Security Services
White Paper In today's world of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks, application-layer security threats are top of mind with many network administrators, security consultants and CIOs. The security infrastructure must address... [15 Sep 2007]
A Software Architecture for Cross-Layer Wireless Network Adaptations
White Paper The introduction of wireless networks has created a need to violate this layered discipline to create cross-layer designs or adaptations. Ad-hoc implementations of such cross-layer adaptations reduce the... [31 Aug 2007]
TCP Over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study
White Paper Modern cellular channels in 3G networks incorporate sophisticated power control and dynamic rate adaptation which can have a significant impact on adaptive transport layer protocols, such as TCP. Though there exists... [07 Nov 2007]
ADO.NET vNext Part 2: Using the Object Services Layer
White Paper This installment builds on Part 1, focusing on a layer named the Object Services Layer that lets a person work with database tables and columns as objects, and properties. The object services... [02 Jul 2007]
TCP Performance Dynamics and Link-Layer Adaptation Based Optimization Methods for Wireless Networks
White Paper With the continuing emergence of wireless technologies ever since the work on TCP performance over wireless began, smart link-layer mechanisms like adaptive modulation and coding, power control, and incremental... [06 Dec 2007]
Scalable OFDMA Physical Layer in IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN
White Paper A scalable physical layer enables standard-based solutions to deliver optimum performance in channel bandwidths ranging from 1.25 MHz to 20 MHz with fixed subcarrier spacing for both fixed and portable/mobile usage... [01 Dec 2004]
Application-Layer Filtering in ISA Server 2004
White Paper ISA Server 2004 is a sophisticated, application-layer aware firewall that uses a number of application filters to perform layer 7 inspection of communications moving through the firewall. ISA Server 2000... [16 Oct 2004]
Enhancing TCP Over HSDPA by Cross-Layer Signalling
White Paper A comprehensive performance evaluation of a cross-layer solution to increase users' downlink data rates over HSDPA is provided. The solution consists of a proxy entity between a server and the Radio Network Controller,... [06 Dec 2007]
