Forward error correction has long been widely deployed at the physical-link layer in conjunction with advanced line-coding schemes. These techniques check and correct ...

Errors happen. That's a fact for any kind of network, whether optical, electrical or wireless. To deal with the errors, it's important to understand what causes them, and how IP networks react to them ...

Have you ever performed surgery on data packets? There are times when that may be the best way to troubleshoot and optimize your network. This edition of the Packet Professor will get you started in ...