Also known as Carrier Ethernet or Private Line Transport, Ethernet Transport is usually used to provide a physical connection to a local area network (LAN). Transport...
Common port numbers need to be memorized by anyone who is looking to work in tech. Once you start working in tech you will memorize these...
I love graphs, charts and visualizations. I find that telling a story through data is a great way to express ideas. These types of visualizations are...
SSH is the secure shell protocol used to securely exchange data between to computers. SCP is the secure copy protocol used to securely copy files from...
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is the latest way to provide unique addressing to systems within a network. IPv6 is slowing replacing IPv4 IP addresses. (Note,...
There’s a number of online speed test websites, but they are all intended to test residential connections of less than 100Mb. They are also non standard...
Network engineering and administration used to not need much programming skill. All you needed to know was how to run commands on switches and routers and...
A BGP transit provider will often send their customer a ‘full table.’ A full table is a table of all the routes and prefixes that the transit provider...
On a network, link is established when two devices are able to communicate through layer 1 and layer 2 of the OSI Layer model. When link is...
IT people have certain types of jargon or words that are not really defined anywhere. “Bouncing a port” or “bouncing an interface” is one such phrase....