Choosing the right layout for your business network is highly important, as poorly-designed networks can create speed and instability problems across your IT systems. Although they differ greatly in ...

As regular readers may recall, Comcast is my broadband Internet (WAN) service provider. And regular readers may also recall that MoCA is one of the LAN technologies in current use in my home ...

If you take a look at your wireless router , you may see the abbreviations LAN and WAN, which are often next to some of the ports on the device. LAN stands for local area network, and WAN stands for ...

As recently as a year and a half ago we both regarded cloud computing as more of a media event than anything that was real and that would impact mainstream IT organizations. That is no longer the case ...

Network managers concerned with the user experience face their biggest challenges over the wide area. LAN-like performance is the goal for users at home or branch offices, but many network managers ...

Different types of private networks are distinguished based on their sizes (in terms of the number of machines), data transfer speeds, and reach. Private networks are networks that belong to a single ...

A communications network that transmits data. Essentially all networks are data networks, including local area networks (LANs), public and private wide area networks (WANs) and the Internet, the ...

Over the past five years or so, IPSec has emerged as the leading standard for building encrypted virtual private network (VPN) connections. FreeS/WAN (www.freeswan.org), the free secure wide area ...

Bottlenecks like high latency and choked bandwidth between the branch office and headquarters may be a thing of the past, if companies apply the latest WAN optimization techniques, says routing and ...

How to allow SSH connections from LAN and WAN on different ports Your email has been sent I want to pose a situation: Say you have users on your internal LAN who need to connect to your servers via ...