Engineer's perspective: TCP is at Layer 4, IP is at Layer 3, VLAN is at Layer 2—layered thinking is the first step in ...

From plain old transmission control protocol (TCP) to newly conceived protocols, the variety of methods for delivering video across the internet is a key area of interest for the entire streaming ...

A wealth of reference material on the subject of networking andthe TCP/IP protocols is currently available, but embedded systemsprogrammers often find it difficult, if not impossible, to siftthrough ...

There are two main data transfer protocols -- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). If you only had to know one fact about each protocol, it's that TCP is slower ...

Do you remember when we used multi-protocol routing for IPX, AppleTalk, and TCP/IP running on the same network? In the 1980s and early 1990s many enterprises had multiple protocols running on the ...

In my previous post on the BitTorrent protocol, I took a look at the main parts of what makes up its infrastructure. For this post I am going to focus on how data is uploaded and downloaded. The ...

The world's first internet transmission occurred on October 29, 1969. At least, that's what some people believe. Others say the more important moment arrived eight years later, when a repurposed ...

Given the open-source nature of SRT, which is available on GitHub for developers to contribute under a lesser general public license (version 2), there’s already been one fork in the underlying code.