The communications technology of the public Internet, local area networks (LANs) and most wide area networks (WANs). The Internet Protocol (IP) is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and the terms "IP ...

Excellent progress is being made regarding the implementation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in air traffic management (ATM) as a result of the integration of the ED-137 Standard into ICAO Doc ...

NASA and the European Space Agency say they have successfully tested an interplanetary communications protocol, with astronauts on the International Space Station using it to control a Lego robot in ...

SS7 has been the tried and true signaling mechanism for providing signaling in traditional PSTN networks. But, with voice-over-IP (VoIP) becoming a more important technology for carriers, carriers are ...

Stanford researchers have found that an algorithm used by ants to optimize foraging uses the same principle as the Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, one of the core protocols of the Internet ...

Prepare your plant for the “Internet of Things” — the proliferation of digital devices that promises to revolutionize industrial production through the ubiquitous interconnectivity of the Internet ...

A fascinating article from Philip N. Howard at George Washington University asserts that the number of connected devices surpassed the number of people on the planet in 2014 (Fig. 1). The author ...

Like many words in the English language, “network” and “protocol” have different meanings, depending on the context. In the context of digital communications, Merriam-Webster defines network as “a ...