One frame in a packet-switched message. Most data communications is based on dividing the transmitted message into packets. For example, an Ethernet packet can be from 64 to 1,518 bytes in length.

Discover the key types of network traffic and their role in optimizing performance plus real-world examples to see how they impact data flow. Identifying network traffic types is vital because it ...

Bandwidth represents the theoretical maximum capacity, while the data rate (or throughput) is the actual, real-world speed ...

A network router plays a crucial role in how data packets travel to and from a computer to host across the Internet. Routers serve as the junction point between the computers in a network and an ...

In the last newsletter, we continued a discussion of discarding voice vs. data packets. This time we’ll continue that discussion with a proposal for how data transmission could be greatly enhanced by ...