Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS)
What is SMDS? Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) is a high-speed, connectionless, low-delay, packet switched, networking service that operates over …
Continue readingWhat is SMDS? Switched Multimegabit Data Service (SMDS) is a high-speed, connectionless, low-delay, packet switched, networking service that operates over …
Continue readingIntroduction This article continues the series on LAN switching and Cisco Catalyst switches. MultiLayer Switching (MLS) is a key component of high performance …
Continue readingIntroduction This article continues the series on LAN switching and Cisco Catalyst switches. This article we’ll talk about dynamic VLAN’s, and explain what VQP …
Continue readingWhat is a Trunk? We’ve seen in the previous article that a VLAN is a broadcast domain, a collection of ports or users that we wish to group together within an …
Continue readingWhat is a LAN Switch? Logically, we really need to start with the question, what is a LAN switch? A LAN switch is a OSI model Layer 2 device, logically similar …
Continue readingIntroduction This article follows up on last month’s article, Configuring SNMP in Cisco Routers. We’ll talk briefly about SNMP and switches, and also about …
Continue readingIntroduction From doing this network management work, it is apparent that Cisco has been adding a little here, a little there, to the SNMP capabilities of the …
Continue readingIntroduction This month we continue looking at Quality of Service (QoS) in Cisco devices. This article looks at Traffic Shaping Policy Routing QoS Policy …
Continue readingIn this article, we’ll look at the following topics: IP Precedence bits Random Early Detection (RED) Committed Access Rate (CAR) Some Cisco QoS Links The IP …
Continue readingWhat Is QoS? QoS stands for Quality of Service. The term is being used by Cisco to refer to IP-based features that allow specification and delivery of services …
Continue readingOSPF Network Type Please also read the previous article OSPF and Route Summarization– Part II OSPF has three network types: Broadcast networks (Ethernet, Token …
Continue readingThis day, we’ll see how to think of summarizable address blocks in a slightly different way. And then we’ll see how this all applies to configuring route …
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