network interface cards
Characterizing Network Events and Their Impact on Routing
White Paper Routers, network interface cards, and IP links can fail or malfunction for many reasons. For example, operators may need to reboot a router for a software upgrade, an... [01 Oct 2008]
The Emerging Optical Control Plane
White Paper In this model, the transport plane carries the user data and comprises network equipment, such as line interface cards, switch fabrics, backplanes and fiber plant.... [30 Aug 2009]
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution
White Paper To support various types of networks, data centers use separate redundant interface modules for each network: Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs)... [12 Jun 2008]
Inline Bandwidth Measurements: Implementation Difficulties and Their Solutions
White Paper However, when the inline network measurement algorithms are implemented in general-purpose computers, some problems arise, such as the clock resolution of the kernel system, Interrupt Coalescence (IC) deployed in... [21 Dec 2007]
How Many Traffic Classes Do We Need in WiMAX?
White Paper Supporting two different scheduling mechanisms may have a significant impact on the complexity of Network Interface Cards, and therefore on the CAPEX for WiMAX networks. Based on this... [22 Apr 2009]
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 With the HP Enterprise Virtual Array and ProLiant Storage Server iSCSI Feature Pack Gateway Edition
White Paper The role of the ProLiant Storage Server is to access disks on the EVA storage array over Fibre Channel adapters and use iSCSI to define and present host access over Gigabit network interface... [20 Feb 2008]
10 GbE Rising Factors Driving the Emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
White Paper Ethernet, the staple of datacenter networking infrastructure, has kept pace with the introduction of 10 Gigabit Ethernet trunking on commodity Layer 2 switches, but until recently server Network... [04 Jul 2008]
Gnort: High Performance Network Intrusion Detection Using Graphics Processors
White Paper This paper presents an intrusion detection system based on the Snort open-source NIDS that exploits the underutilized computational power of modern graphics cards to offload the costly pattern matching operations from... [20 Jun 2009]
Olicom puts Linux on the cards
News Networking vendor, Olicom, is to include support for Linux in its ranges of Token Ring, Ethernet and ATM network interface cards. Linux-friendly Ethernet cards will be... [06 Jul 1999]
Network card sales slump
News The report claims that shipments of network interface cards fell to 12.6 million for the first quarter of 1999, almost 13 per cent down on the previous quarter. The drop in PC sales has... [25 May 1999]
Top 10 tips to stop wireless hackers
News Many new laptops are being shipped with inbuilt WiFi cards which means your system may be remotely accessible without the protection of firewall. Additionally, check for the introduction of unauthorised wireless... [06 Mar 2002]
Cheat Sheet: The A-Z of 802.11
Cheat Sheet When finished and available, it'll work with existing cards: end of 2003 looks possible.f As of early 2003, you can buy '802.11g' cards despite the standard not being finished until later this year:... [04 Apr 2003]
Cheat Sheet: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Cheat Sheet As before, pre-standard network interface cards (NICs), switches and routers will be sold with the guarantee of upgrades once the standard is finalised. But now suppliers are pitching... [31 Oct 2001]
Police to use Bluetooth to access intelligence records
News The market doesn't provide any Tetra-based PDA devices or modem cards," he said. Using Tetra portable radios officers can do some of the checks with PNC (police national computer) but the user interface... [25 May 2004]
Sun hopes Jini will answer corporate wishes
News Kotzen noted that it is being used in both Java business applications and embedded in devices that run the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) software, such as smart cards, and in far-flung systems such as that used in the... [12 May 2003]
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