Just ask any economist: When a commodity is in short supply, several things happen. The price goes up, rationing begins, and people start scrambling for substitutes. Globally unique Internet addresses ...

Rather than layering security onto networks, the networks themselves and carefully managed authorization policies can hinder attacks, but at an administrative cost. Why is it that over 90% of ...

IPv6 increases IP address space to 128 bits, thus increasing the pool of addresses from IPv4's 2^32 to 2^128, or 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 ...

In previous articles I outlined one of the most clear-cut use cases for Software Defined WAN: replacing traditional Internet-based VPNs with a centrally-managed SD-WAN solution. This is easy for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Every engineer working with media these days should understand the basics of network addressing, ...

Knowing how an IP address identifies a host on a network can be confusing. Before you begin calculating various addresses, you should know the fundamentals of IP addressing. Todd Lammle describes this ...

Before connecting a printer to a local area network, to prevent problems from occurring down the line, businesses should make sure that their networking, hardware and software setups will allow the ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

Network Address Translator, or simply called NAT, is an important part of the device between your LAN and the Internet. It could be located in the router you use to connect the local network to the ...

Download The SMB’s Guide to Wireless Networking — it’s free with registration. Technology changes so quickly that it’s often hard to keep up or stay current. But here’s one small business networking ...