In networking and communications, the formats, codes and procedures for transmitting a unit of data (frame, packet) from one node to another. Known as a "layer 2 protocol," the data link protocol ...

To transfer data on Earth’s internet, TCP/IP requires a complete end-to-end path of routers that forward packets of information through links such as copper or fiber optic cables, or cellular data ...

“While FEC is primarily designed for error correction, it can also detect most uncorrectable errors,” the researchers wrote. ...

Commentary Nervous System: How Packet Data Built the Internet "The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than ...

I'll also present solutions that future data protocols may improve on. Background. The industrial automation sector started with direct-connected I/O devices. ... Some early implementations used raw ...

I was reading a murder mystery yesterday where a critical plot point was that the villain's MAC address was captured in Apache logs. That appears to be nonsense: IP address yes, MAC, no. He was ...

The 7.3Tbps attack amounted to 37.4 terabytes of junk traffic that hit the target in just 45 seconds. That's an almost incomprehensible amount of data, equivalent to more than 9,300 full-length HD ...

New Data Center Protocols Tackle AI. UALink scales up, while Ultra Ethernet scales out. March 17th, 2025 - By: Bryon Moyer. Compute nodes in AI and HPC data centers increasingly need to reach out ...