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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

High performance computing (HPC) requires an extremely high-powered network with ultra-low latency to move large files between HPC nodes quickly. IT and network operations (NetOps) teams in industries ...

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 ...

Imagine this 5G use case: A building collapses. It’s too dangerous to send in the human rescuers, but there may still be survivors under the rubble. You send in a robot—but it needs super-sensitive ...

It may sound inevitable that a summer of streaming live sports and festivals will put more demand on the home network. Whether watching Wimbledon tennis matches, Euros football finals, or live music, ...

“Latency is clearly the biggest factor in network constraints of page loading on the Web,” says Guy Podjarny, chief product architect at Akamai. This is clear in run measurements of real users or in ...

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 ...