There’s an often-impenetrable alphabet soup of protocols, standards and technologies around the Internet of Things. Here’s our attempt to wipe away some of the fog, in the hopes of making the language ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...

Network protocols are formal standards and policies consisting of rules, procedures, and formats that define how data is exchanged over networks. They ensure that devices can communicate effectively, ...

Physical access and logical access have historically been two separate (and likely unequal) silos within an organization. IT has their password access mechanisms; with some modern improvements.

Discover the latest networking and security standards added to SDxCentral’s Open Source Marketplace, including IEEE Wi-Fi, IETF QUIC, and SRv6, driving innovation in connectivity and cybersecurity.

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 ...

Last time, one of our readers challenged VoIP market leaders Cisco, Nortel and Avaya on their commitment to open standard, cost-effective VoIP solutions. Today, we’d like to add our observations and ...

Some of these features were supported by other storage media, but the hard disk was the first medium to support all of these features. Consequently, the hard disk helped make many advances possible in ...

Appendix A: Server Security Compliance Checklist (Login required: IT Staff only) Appendix B: Security and Configuration Management Tools (Login required: IT Staff only) All university owned devices, ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...