David Strom is the author of two books on computer networking, along with thousands of articles on various IT topics. Follow him on Twitter: @dstrom As agencies' networks widen their reach through the ...

Measure Your Network Latency Before It Becomes a Problem Latency can be a problem in networks, especially if there's a cloud service involved. You may not be able to eliminate it, but here's how you ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Anne Rawland Gabriel is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. “Time is money” isn’t just a cliché in ...

If you want to build infrastructure that scales larger than a single image of a server and an operating system, you have no choice but to network together multiple machines. And so, the network ...

Packet queues are a core component of any network stack or device. They allow for asynchronous modules to communicate, increase performance and have the side effect of impacting latency. This article ...

In anInformationWeekarticle published a decade ago, a large global investment bank stated that every millisecond lost results in $100m per annum in lost opportunity [1]This article is still quoted ...

Discover the key types of network traffic and their role in optimizing performance plus real-world examples to see how they impact data flow. Identifying network traffic types is vital because it ...

The speed of a network is generally defined as throughput: how many megabits or gigabits your network can pump through its pipes in the course of a second. That's certainly important, but there's ...