TCP and Latency • Latency is the time—measured in milliseconds—a round-trip signal takes to travel a network. Latency often has little to do with the physical distance a signal travels; it’s more affected by the number and type of nodes that a...

Remote Access • Remote Management • Remote access refers to a temporary link—usually a phone connection—and does not include permanent LAN-to-LAN connections. These temporary links can be made over a number of different kinds of media includin...

Multimode vs. Singlemode Fibre • Multimode vs. Singlemode Fibre • Multimode fibre cable has a large-diameter core and therefore has multiple modes of propagation—that is, several wavelengths of light are used in the fibre core. It’s primarily ...

Standard and ThinNet Ethernet • Thick and ThinNet Ethernet: 10-Mbps • As a result of research done at Xerox Corporation in the early 1970s, Ethernet has evolved into the most widely implemented physical and Data link layer protocol today. Most...

HDBaseT • HDBaseT • HDBaseT is a connectivity standard for distribution of uncompressed HD multimedia content. HDBaseT technology converges full HD digital video, audio, 100BaseT Ethernet, power over cable, and various control signals through ...

...such as power, cooling, networking, management and interconnections to the chassis while the blades themselves control server functions such as processing and storage. • Hot-Swappable • Because individual blades are usually hot-swappable, they’re we...

...1000-Mbps • In computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100-Mbps, against the original Ethernet speed of 10-Mbps. Of the fast Ethernet standards 100BASE-TX i...

Common display configurations • Common display configurations • Individual video screens • The most common digital signage application is individual video screens displaying information. Often multiple screens in various locations are networke...