The Mail Analogy: Understanding TCP Headers and Reliable Delivery The internet seamlessly transfers data, but how does it ensure everything arrives correctly? The Internet Protocol (IP) plays a crucial role, acting like the clear address written on the outer envelope...
Network congestion may occur when a sender overflows the network with too many packets. At the time of congestion, the network cannot handle this traffic properly, which results in a degraded quality of service (QoS). The typical symptoms of a congestion are:...
We’ve talked about network latency several times in previous blog posts. Today, let’s drill a bit deeper on that topic, and especially how it influences application performance. Network latency is the time it takes for a packet to travel across the...
Video is an interesting network application. Many users consume hours of video per day, and an hour of HD video is easily more than a gigabyte in size. Those two factors alone make delivering video a non-trivial exercise. But the real challenge is that most video...
[This post launches the “BGP Security Month” on Noction blog, which will continue with other 3 posts to come till the end of April.] Back in the late 1980s and the early 1990s when BGP was developed, security was still an afterthought for protocols used on the...
