Modern switches and routers often use dynamic RAM (DRAM) in order to provide large buffer storage space. However, the effective bandwidth of DRAM is frequently a limiting factor in the design of ...

Bufferbloats—an amusing word for a less-than-delightful issue (we reported on these last year). A bufferbloat is the proliferation of more and more buffering of IP packets in routers, switches, modems ...

Spiraling network line rates, presently hitting up to 10 Gbit/second, are approaching the performance limits of the packet buffers in today's datacom line cards. For its part, buffer-memory ...

If a little salt makes food taste better, then a lot must make it taste great, right? This logic is often applied in the digital domain, too. (My pet peeve is that TV shows and DVDs keep getting ...

Clos network, a family of multistage networks, are attractive alternative for constructing scalable packet switches because of its distributed and modular design. The clos packet switching networks ...

Digital content primarily is delivered to a conversion device in two ways. One way is in real time, as uncompressed audio and video using SDI and AES. But as facilities and media transport evolves to ...

As technology advances at a rapid pace, PCI Express (or PCIe) has grown tremendously, allowing data transfer up to 64 GT/s in Gen6. This technology is widely used in data centers, artificial ...