SAN JOSE — At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Corp. here today (Feb. 28) expanded its efforts in the high-end, physical-layer chip market for local- and wide-area networking applications. These new ...

Network-equipment manufacturers use lab network environments to perform scenario testing on new products, and they need to be able to reconfigure those networks quickly, accurately, and ...

Thanks for your comments on my first EtherGeek post on understanding the OSI Model. I especially enjoyed learning new ways to remember the OSI Model; for example: Please Do Not Throw Stale Pizza Away.

Boulder, Colo.-based Picolight Inc. today introduced a pluggable optical transceiver that allows equipment manufacturers and system administrators to view the performance of an installed optical ...

Getting started on designing a network is a task of formidable proportions, but all the more so if you are looking to build a secure IT network. Often, IT system administrators are not fully familiar ...

This article examines netstat and some of it many outputs, in relation to the open systems interconnect (OSI) model. A quick examination of netstat's man pages provides a description of the program: ...

With all the attention garnered by the higher OSI layers, we sometimes forget that all seven layers are necessary for communications to work. So when troubleshooting, for example, don’t forget about ...