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.

Getting started on designing a network is a task of formidable proportions, but all the more so if you are looking to build a secure IT network. Often, IT system administrators are not fully familiar ...

The Local Interconnection Network (LIN) standard defines a low cost, serial communication network for automotive distributed electronic systems. LIN is a complement to the other automotive multiplex ...

Optical networks are the backbone of modern high-speed communication systems, enabling vast data throughput over extensive geographical areas. With the increasing demand for secure data transmission, ...

This is the second installment of the 802.XX for the IoE series of articles. The first one was published in the August issue and addressed the Media Access Control (MAC) layer. In this article, we ...

The design of the LTE physical layer (PHY) is heavily influenced by requirements for high peak transmission rate (100 Mbps DL/50 Mbps UL), spectral efficiency, and multiple channel bandwidths (1.25-20 ...

Explains the three layers critical to network design: Access, Distribution, and Core Anyone involved in networking and/or telecommunications should be somewhat familiar with the use of layers. Many ...

A networking topology choice that is easily misunderstood. There are many questions that come to mind when selecting a Layer 2 vs Layer 3 network topology for audio systems. Surprisingly, most of it ...

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 ...