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Congestion - Can standards provide relief?
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Top ten things to know about network administration
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Understanding business service management
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Network devices face unending dangers
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TCP/IP primer
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Guide to network security
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Chapter of the Week - How a switch works
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Congestion - Can standards provide relief?
[Carrie Higbie]
Congestion is a growing concern in networks and a growing nightmare for network managers. This tip discusses several means available today to control how traffic moves through a network from setting QoS (Quality of Service) bits to the newer SIP protocol functionality, VLANs, bandwidth managers, etc. The problem is that different systems and vendors may interpret the standards differently, making interoperability tricky.
Top ten things to know about network administration
[Tom Lancaster]
If you have employees that are just getting started in the networking field, they've got a lot to learn, and with the rate of changes in networking technology, they can expect to always have a lot to learn. Here's some help for them with the ten essential topics that they should concentrate on...
Understanding business service management
[Mark Hounslow]
Here we take a look at business service management (BSM), a method of linking critical business services to the supporting IT services and infrastructure. This tip describes how an effective BSM solution can provide business level views that simplify problem detection, problem resolution and capacity planning activities. An effective BSM solution also enables proactive management of the technology that the services depend on and
ensures business service availability and optimization.
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Network devices face unending dangers
Denial-of-service attacks, mirror points and false routing are just a few of the ways hackers can disrupt networks, but a Burton Group analyst explains how enterprises can thwart device dangers.
TCP/IP primer
This week we examine TCP/IP, one of the core networking technologies, and explore how the standard OSI model is linked to the TCP/IP suite.
Guide to network security
This learning guide introduces you to the main components in whole network security. You'll find articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers and more to pump up your network security quickly.
Chapter of the Week - How a switch works
Chapter 6 of LAN Switching First-Step by Matthew Castelli explains how to differentiate among unicast, multicast, and broadcast transmission methods; store-and-forward, cut-through, and fragment-free switching mechanisms; and then describes Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching operation. (Reproduced from the book LAN Switching First-Step, ISBN 1587201003, Copyright 2005, Cisco Systems, Inc. Reproduced by permission of
Pearson Education, Inc., 800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46240. Written permission from Pearson Education, Inc. is required for all other uses. Visit www.ciscopress.com for a detailed description and to learn how to purchase this title.)
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