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tHAWT Episode #104: Bovine Tags

Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 11:38 AM by thindson :: 0 Comments
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In this weeks episode we have Paul , Michel and myself discussing a range of topics. The bovine theme was enhanced due to a recording a well respected instructor once did for us relating SONET in terms of cows and trucks , which we have resurrected some Read More...

PodSnack: Hub

Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Do you have a hub ? I suspect you probably don't. They're still around though. I was amazed, last Friday, when one of the kids in my son's Boy Scout troop walked in with an old Ethernet hub they use to network their Xboxs. And they're Read More...

PodSnacks: Virtual LANs (VLAN)

Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Hill Associates' instructors are famous for defining the word "virtual" as "whatever follows it is a lie." Enter the virtual LAN . Apparently the LAN part is a lie. In today's PodSnack, Michel explains it to you. You can listen Read More...

PodSnacks: Ethernet's CSMA/CD

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Ethernet has been around since the mid 1970s. Since that time, it has gone through four distinct generations. It began as a coax-based broadcast network, became a hubbed broadcast network, shifted to being a switched architecture, and now incorporates Read More...

PodSnack: Bridging versus Switching

Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today we're going to head in a completely different direction. When we teach data courses, we often find ourselves in a discussion about Ethernet and the role of Ethernet switches. When you begin to examine the standards, you find constant reference Read More...

PodSnacks: Ethernet Addressing

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Recently, we looked at Frame Relay addressing, so we might as well stay with the theme and take a look at another form of addressing : Ethernet . In today's PodSnack, Dave takes you through the structure of the Ethernet address . You can listen to Read More...

Battle of the Titans

Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 5:58 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Once upon a time there was a major player in routing . They were known as Cisco and all others were but a pale shadow compared to their market position. Where Cisco touted double digit penetration, others could only boast single digit penetration. And Read More...

PodSnacks: IEEE Project 802

Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:00 PM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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And now for something completely different, let's chat a bit about a set of standards that are important to all of us: the set of standards known collectively as IEEE Project 802 . These are important to us because within this set of standards we Read More...

PodSnacks: 10BASE-F

Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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A few weeks ago we did a few segments on Ethernet Physical Layer options and talked about 10BASE-T , 100BASE-T , and GigE . Today, I thought I'd go back to that subject and plug another hole, albeit with an older and less commonly found Physical Layer Read More...

PodSnacks: Broadcast, Multicast, and Unicast

Posted Friday, November 30, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today we're going to talk a bit about different kinds of address. Specifically, I'm going to look at the difference between a broadcast , a multicast , and a unicast address and where each can be used. You can listen to (or download) today's Read More...

PodSnack: Ethernet

Posted Friday, November 23, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 1 Comments
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Ethernet certainly ranks as one of the most ubiquitous networking technologies in the world, along with the Internet Protocol (IP) and the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Today's podcast takes a look at Ethernet from a historical perspective, Read More...

PodSnacks: Flow Control

Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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We recently recorded a new ExperTech title on Transport Layer and Application Services Layer concepts (is that a shameless plug or what?), and the topic of flow control came up. This is a mechanism by which a transmitter is limited in what it can send. Read More...

PodSnacks: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Let's go wrap up our discussion of Ethernet transmission rates with a look at 10 Gigabit Ethernet . This is still truly a backbone technology that is used in data centers, metro areas, links inside carrier networks, and storage applications. It is Read More...

PodSnacks: Gigabit Ethernet

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Let's go back to a subject we started a couple of weeks ago: Ethernet transmission rates. We talked about 10BASE-T and 100BASE-T . Now let's step it up to the next transmission rate: Gigabit Ethernet . Although many people think of this as a "backbone" Read More...

PodSnacks: Frame

Posted Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Sometimes, I am amazed at the number of very basic concepts that we simply have not talked about in this series. One of those jumped out at me as I was doing some update work on our wiki . We use the term frame all of the time, but we have never really Read More...
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