Thanks for your comments on my first EtherGeek post on understanding the OSI Model. I especially enjoyed learning new ways to remember the OSI Model; for example: Please Do Not Throw Stale Pizza Away.

Network-equipment manufacturers use lab network environments to perform scenario testing on new products, and they need to be able to reconfigure those networks quickly, accurately, and ...

It used to be that if you used one particular vendor’s automation products or sensors, you were locked in forever. With today’s open standards-based networks, users are no longer locked in and can ...

The analysis is on, looking back at 2009 and 2010 for what protocols and physical layer networking may be trending into next year. The folks over at Wikibon have set their gears turning on where ...

This article examines netstat and some of it many outputs, in relation to the open systems interconnect (OSI) model. A quick examination of netstat's man pages provides a description of the program: ...

Buildings that don’t have good foundations will fail, sooner or later. No matter how intelligent the elevators, paging systems and virtual offices may be, if the physical medium and the devices ...