Chainlink (LINK) is a technology platform that enables blockchain platforms to securely interact with external data sources ...

They are: · Network protocols — these are rules for communicating in a particular network environment. Internet Protocol, IPX, NetBEUI etc are examples.

That includes Simple Network Management Protocol, or SNMP. It has been in use since the 1980s and remains one of the most commonly used communications standards for good reason.

How Spanning Tree Works Spanning Tree is a forwarding protocol for data packets. It’s one part traffic cop and one part civil engineer for the network highways that data travels through.

Troubleshooting network problems is not an art; it’s a science. Stumbling around in the dark hoping to figure out what’s wrong works some of the time. But to become a true network ninja, IT pros must ...

We’ll dive into the details about the most widely used protocols: WireGuard, OpenVPN and IKEv2/IPSec. L2TP, SSTP and PPTP are rarely used in VPNs these days. Even if you’ve got an option to ...

What’s surprising is that the new protocol bypasses HTTP/2 entirely and adopts the QUIC protocol as its base. The quick take on HTTP/3 is: Build TCP 2.0 on top of UDP and call it QUIC.

Near Protocol is by no means the first network to use sharding. It has been talked about as a possible fix for Ethereum since 2013 and Ethereum-competitor Zilliqa put one version of it into ...

SMB is a network file-sharing protocol that was created by IBM developer Barry Feigenbaum in 1983. The letters SMB are an abbreviation for Server Message Block, although the protocol is also ...

Layer 2 protocols transfer data between nodes within a LAN or an adjacent WAN, lifting the burden from the P2P blockchain network.