Local and wide area networks provide for workplace communication highways. Both network types allow coworkers to exchange information. Like a city highway during rush hour, a network can suffer from ...

I was speaking with Certeon about recently released performance figures for their network/application acceleration virtual appliance that can be hosted both on VMware's ESX Server or Microsort's Hyper ...

For some time, networking capacity has been more of a bottleneck for online services than computer power. Today, Facebook Inc., which has some 2 billion users, is launching a new way to make sure ...

Gigabit is truly enough for most people. But, in a homelab environment, it starts to show its age pretty quick when compared ...

Getting a grip on network performance numbers is one of the most difficult tasks for network managers. Unlike many information technology statistics such as disk space utilization and available memory ...

If you’re looking at deploying 802.11ac Wi-Fi access point (AP) technology, as most companies have already, you may want to consider upgrading the speed of your wired connection between your APs and ...

While modern routers use beamforming to direct signals toward devices, physical misalignment can still tank speeds. You ...

Your network is running fine at 9 AM. By 11 AM, everything feels sluggish. Come 2 PM, users are complaining that file transfers are crawling, and by 4 PM, someone's inevitably asking if the internet ...

Two researchers may have found a way to greatly reduce traffic bottlenecks that could take place in ad hoc networks. Such work may be essential for the future development of sensor networks, they say.

Companies waiting for cloud service providers to make them more agile shouldn’t hold their breath, according to technology executive Tom Joyce (pictured, right). “If I can reconfigure everything and ...

In honor of Thanksgiving, here are our picks for 2006’s biggest turkeys in IT. And boy, there were some doozies. Click here for more. The days of starting a network company one year and taking it ...