Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...

Chances are you’ve heard about network protocol in the past but likely have little idea of what it is all about. For sure right now, we can say that there are different types of network protocols ...

On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the inventor of Network Time Protocol (NTP), died peacefully at age 85 on January 17, 2024. The announcement came in a post ...

AppleTalk is one of the two protocols typically used in today’s Mac networks. The other is TCP/IP, which has become the dominant network protocol for all computer networks and is the protocol on which ...

Terms can sometimes play tricks on the mind. Take EtherNet/IP, for example. Many people will read “IP” as internet protocol and think that EtherNet/IP refers to plain old, standard industrial Ethernet ...

Authentication close authenticationVerifying the identity of a user. is the process of a user confirming that they are who they say they are on a computer system. In a network, this is often done ...

A node given a static address always keeps the same address. A node given a dynamic address has a different address assigned to it each time it connects to the network. This address is given using the ...

Meta plans to deploy a new network timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), to keep every server in its data centers on the same time. The company said that it had successfully piloted PTP at ...