Edge router design begins with requirements similar to those of core routers, while adding a range of complex requirements. The big difference is that while core routers are designed with one purpose ...

Cisco has significant enhancements on tap for its edge routers, to support multiple services – such as Ethernet, frame relay, ATM and broadband aggregation – across a wider variety of platforms. The ...

Organizations today are too dependent on the Internet to experience any downtime when upgrading from IPv4 to IPv6. But help is on the way. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined ...

Alcatel-Lucent this week unveiled significant upgrades to its edge lineup, highlighted by a new chip. Alcatel-Lucent this week joined an ongoing announcement party among major router vendors by ...

If you're seeing some slowdown, it might be time to upgrade your router or switch to a mesh network. Cutting-edge networking ...

Delivering quality-of-service (QoS) in packet-switched networks requires sorting the packets into traffic classes and ensuring that each class of traffic receives an appropriate share of ...