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 ...

IoT protocols and communication standards refer to the vast network of devices that are connected to the Internet and can exchange data with each other. Learn more about IoT software development ...

A networking protocol that has been under development for four years got a boost from both F5 Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. this week. Called OpenTelemetry — OTel or OTLP for short — the protocol has been ...

Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, CC-Link, Mudbus, OPC UA are common in industrial automation. SNMP, REST, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, ODBC, OLE-DB and OPC UA (again) are protocols common in the IT space.

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is a link layer discovery protocol that has been integrated into Cisco switches and routers ever since I can remember. Cisco introduced CDP support into their routers ...

Q: I recently read the LWAPP Flap article in Network World. The article suggests that the only currently existing alternative to using Lightweight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP) for communications ...

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 ...

Like many of his peers, Bob Metcalfe, a young computer science graduate student at Harvard University in 1969, was eyeing a lucrative career. At the time, it was networking amid the growing desire to ...

The key technical differences between JESD230G and earlier revisions of the NAND Flash Interoperability Standard. How the new Separate Command Address (SCA) Protocol improves performance by ...