We met Mr. Murphy, of “What can go wrong, will” infamy, in the introduction to failure modes and the discussion of failure modes at the foundation levels. Now we will learn his tricks on shared media ...

Sitting above the physical layer is the link layer, which is responsible for scanning, advertising, creating, and maintaining links or connections between devices. The link layer also manages ...

With all the attention garnered by the higher OSI layers, we sometimes forget that all seven layers are necessary for communications to work. So when troubleshooting, for example, don’t forget about ...

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems become the backbone of modern data centers, they generate and consume a massive amount of data. Traditional Ethernet was ...