...Latency often has little to do with the physical distance a signal travels; it’s more affected by the number and type of nodes that a signal travels through. A satellite connection, for instance, often adds a great deal of latency because of th...

...interface • V.35 is the ITU (formerly CCITT) standard termed “Data Transmission at 48 kbps Using 60–108 KHz Group-Band Circuits. • Basically, V.35 is a high-speed serial interface designed to support both higher data rates and connectivity between D...

...on the enclosure that fits your needs best. • Size. • Before you choose a cabinet size, you need to determine what equipment you need to house. This list can include CPUs, monitors, keyboards, modems, servers, switches, hubs, routers, and UPSs. Con...

...strain the cooling capacity of your data center. The components housed in a medium-sized data center can easily generate enough heat to heat a house in the dead of winter! • So cool you must, • because when network components become hot, they’re pro...

Gigabit Ethernet • Gigabit Ethernet • As workstations and servers migrated from ordinary 10-Mbps Ethernet to 100-Mbps speeds, it became clear that even greater speeds were needed. Gigabit Ethernet was developed for an even faster Ethernet stan...

...Who’s setting it up? • You can buy and set up VPN equipment by yourself. But some service providers have introduced VPN solutions that guarantee certain levels of service. They boast 99% uptime and offer credit reimbursements for outages, ...

...your network stretches. It’s even possible to connect serial devices across the Internet. A terminal server connects the remote serial device to the network, and then another terminal server somewhere else on the network connects to the other serial...