As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, ...

Once upon a time, layer-2 unicast performance tests would have produced by far the most important results, but that’s changed. Measuring unicast throughput on all ports, once considered the acid test ...

Multicast, a technique commonly used in networking systems, allows a given processing unit to send a single data stream to multiple destinations at the same time efficiently. Typically, the switch ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The consolidation of the Internet Protocol as the foundation of most communications services has ...

If Internet security is an important part of your job responsibility, this first-of-its-kind book is essential reading. It presents detailed coverage of multicast security from the leading developer ...

Internet protocol (IP) multicast technology has matured quite a bit since it was first deployed in the late 1990s. Multicast-enabled applications such as webinars, video/audio conferences, Internet ...

Because many data center applications today make use of IP multicast, scalability is naturally a concern. For layer-2 switched environments, the main measure of IP multicast scalability is group ...