As broadcasters increasingly move toward IP-based systems within their facilities and for wide area network connections, the ability to prioritize some packets over others is becoming more desirable.

Delivering quality-of-service (QoS) in packet-switched networks requires sorting the packets into traffic classes and ensuring that each class of traffic receives an appropriate share of ...

The field of packet classification is pivotal to modern network operations, underpinning the ability to manage data traffic efficiently and securely. This discipline involves algorithms and ...

Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn't collapse when major companies including Google, Facebook and Yahoo! enabled IPv6 on their ...

Application-specific ICs, like these from IDT, take the processing burden from a central network processor. However, compute-intensive packet searches that serve such purposes as routing, security, ...