Network traffic in both enterprise and carrier networks continues to rise, driving the bandwidth requirements and line rates to 10 Gbps today, and expecting to grow to 40 Gbps and beyond in a few ...

In a short time, network infrastructure bandwidth has scaled exponentially to 10 Gbits/s, with designs for next-generation Ethernet promising between 40 and 100 Gbits/s. At the same time, the ...

Delivering quality-of-service (QoS) in packet-switched networks requires sorting the packets into traffic classes and ensuring that each class of traffic receives an appropriate share of ...

HP’s latest entries into the stand-alone Gigabit Ethernet switch space – the ProCurve 2824 and the 2848 models – offer a $100 per gigabit port price, but the trade-off is less than ideal performance ...