AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwired - May 23, 2013) - SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today introduced new network route and multicast monitoring ...

DO YOU KNOW the difference between IP broadcast and multicast? When is it appropriate to use multicasting for network video transmission? This month’s column is a quick tutorial on the basic methods ...

One minor inconvenience in writing about the worlds of video and data communications is the large amount of overlap between terminologies. Network means something completely different to a television ...

We’ve heard a good deal about the amount of bandwidth that video demands from the network. IP multicasting is a method to reduce that demand. In some cases, it can be rather complex to implement.

Network coding represents a paradigm shift in data transmission, whereby intermediate nodes within a network combine incoming data streams using algebraic operations before forwarding them. This ...

Once upon a time, layer-2 unicast performance tests would have produced by far the most important results, but that’s changed. Measuring unicast throughput on all ports, once considered the acid test ...

As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, ...