Content-Distribution Networks
Sites with an extremely large volume of content to distribute often turn…
Transport Communications Patterns
The two “classic” traffic patterns for Internet communication are these: • Interactive…
The Future of IPv4
As mentioned earlier, allocation of blocks of IP addresses is the responsibility…
IP Forwarding
IP routers use datagram forwarding, to deliver packets, but the “destination” values…
IP – Internet Protocol
To solve the scaling problem with Ethernet, and to allow support for…
LANs and Ethernet
A local-area network, or LAN, is a system consisting of • physical links…
Packets Again
Perhaps the core justification for packets, Baran’s concerns about node failure notwithstanding,…
Congestion
Switches introduce the possibility of congestion: packets arriving faster than they can…


