Streamlining data transmission is a critical challenge for any enterprise. Thankfully, the TCP/IP protocol provides many ways to optimize data transfer. This article examines several options and shows ...

Most network people understand the terrible effect delay can have on TCP sessions. TCP must pause data transfers while waiting for ACKs. The more network delay there is, the longer this pause will be.

Researchers at Caltech, Harvard and MIT have been working with colleagues in Europe to come up with a method of boosting wireless network performance. What they've created is a network that is 10 ...

Last month, in the first of a two-part series, I described the theory behind the next generation in passive authentication technologies called Single Packet Authorization (SPA). This article gets away ...