Everything stops when the network goes down. For some enterprises, a few minutes of downtime isn't critical. For others, including those whose business depends on a customer-facing website, a few ...

Designing a resilient network is more than just adding redundancy. You must understand business needs, then incorporate the level of redundancy required to create a resilient network. I've been doing ...

The word redundancy is thrown around often in today's communications equipment sector. And, for the most part, this term is used to describe systems that deliver the coveted 99.999 percent (five nines ...

What is the network layer? Located at Layer 3 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communications model, the primary function of the network layer is to move data into and through other networks.

The centrality of transmission networks has, also, imposed the evolution of redundancy techniques aimed at strengthening the LANs on which an increasing number of information ‘travel’. In recent ...

Steps engineers can take to help mitigate power outage impacts. Paths to PLC redundancy. Paths to PAC redundancy. How can a dual Ethernet ring help with resilience? Power outages are becoming more ...