Today, connectivity to the Internet is easy; you simply get an Ethernet driver and hook up the TCP/IP protocol stack. Then dissimilar network types in remote locations can communicate with each other.

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) marks a paradigm shift from conventional, host-centric networking to a model where the focus is on the retrieval and distribution of data itself. At its core, ICN ...

Data center networking has been reshaping the era of artificial intelligence. It’s the connective layer that decides whether new applications surge ahead or stall under their own weight. But the shift ...

The Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) is a standard protocol for tunneling L2 traffic over an IP network. Its ability to carry almost any L2 data format over IP or other L3 networks makes it ...

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