Editor’s Note: Starting next week, the Network Optimization newsletter will have a new author: Ann Bednarz, Network World’s associate news editor. As Network World’s applications expert, Ann will ...

Soon after data centers began transitioning from hard drives to solid-state drives (SSD), the NVMe protocol arrived to support high-performance, direct-attached PCIe SSDs. NVMe was followed by NVMe ...

Some days you can't win for losing. In 2012, Linux implemented a new TCP/IP networking standard, RFC 5961, Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks, to improve security. In the process, ...

Right now, as any smartphone owner knows, a phone or tablet will either use Wi-Fi or 4G or 3G—and never at the same time. So your streaming video may cut out because the network you were using dropped ...

At the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley Quadros Systems, Inc. announced RTXC Quark TCP/IP embedded networking software. Key features include: RFC-compliant protocols including IPv4, UDP, TCP ...

After iOS 7 launched on Wednesday, it was discovered that Apple included a new networking protocol called Multipath TCP in the next-gen operating system, allowing devices like the iPhone to ...

This application note presents the TCP/IP protocol stack-based network solution for industrial applications. The document describes the method of acquiring a development environment, the environment ...

It's easy to miss neat features that get added to really broad products, because they don't get publicized as the most important thing about the release. But the under-publicized features can also be ...

Courtesy of the complex routing and network configurations that Cloudflare uses, their engineers like to push the Linux network stack to its limits and ideally beyond. In a blog article [Chris ...

Microsoft Corp. has reached a licensing agreement with networking technology vendor Alacritech Inc. that will remove Microsoft’s forthcoming TCP Chimney software from the legal limbo it’s been stuck ...