Running speed tests didn't reveal anything, and latency looked perfectly fine, too. But it was doing ping tests and ...

A network router plays a crucial role in how data packets travel to and from a computer to host across the Internet. Routers serve as the junction point between the computers in a network and an ...

The fundamental technology underpinning the internet is called packet-switching. And Donald Davies was the first one to call it that. In the mid-1960s, Davies was a researcher with Britain's National ...

There are legitimate uses for a technology called Deep Packet Inspection. But it's the "improper" use of the technology that prompted Washington-based Free Press to release a report this week entitled ...

Everyone has internet connection troubles some days. I've been a network administrator and have used the internet since the 1970s and I still have connection problems! Here are a few simple tips on ...

Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet switching technology helped to lay the foundation for the Internet, has died at the age of 84. Paul Baran, whose Cold War era invention of packet ...

Does deep packet inspection mean the end of the Internet? Deep packet inspection (DPI) gear has always been marketed to ISPs as a way to earn more money by scanning Internet traffic and charging more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the CTO of Resilient Systems, Inc. Universal identification is portrayed by some as the holy grail of Internet security.

Exploring the evolution of information technology highlights intriguing similarities between the internet's core transmission unit, the packet, and the token, which is fundamental to today's AI-driven ...