In a business environment dominated by cloud computing, mobility and Web-based applications, enterprises need smarter, application-aware networks to ensure performance. But while application awareness ...

Listen carefully. The top level of the OSI Reference Model and the IETF protocol stack is the application layer. The application layer, however, doesn’t do applications. It provides services such as ...

The latest Internet defense technology – deep packet inspection firewalls – is being touted as the best line of defense against worms that can sneak past earlier technology to wreak havoc in corporate ...

In some cases, applications can be based upon industry-accepted standards, as shown in Figure 10-27. For example, for devices that need to be able to connect to other devices to transfer data or to ...

Legacy networking approaches don’t align with the way that cloud providers create services or access and only introduce more complexity. Move to the cloud, but leave your traditional networking behind ...

Application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks almost doubled in the last quarter of 2017, according to the latest threat report from security firm Imperva. As well as increasing by 43 ...

Fit within curriculum: core option for Computer Science BS students; Computer Science elective option for Computer Science BA students. Focuses on design and implementation of network programs and ...