...Levels 1-4 • -Microcom Networking Protocol- (MNP-), developed by Microcom Systems, Inc., enables error-free async data transmission. Although MNP is proprietary, it became an industry standard in the 1980s because users demanded it from manufacture...

Centralised Management for KVM • Centralised Management for KVM • Make security vs access a simple task to manage. • KVM technology has been with us for a long time now. Most server managers regularly use KVM switches to access servers either ...

TEMPEST standard and Common Criteria (EAL4+) • TEMPEST standard and Common Criteria (EAL4+) • Common Criteria (EAL4+) • Common Criteria (EAL4+) defines a common set of tests regarding the process of the design, testing, verification, and shipp...

Remote Management • Remote Management • Inconvenience. • "It's late on Sunday evening and you're about to settle down to watch the big film when you receive a message that the system has gone down". It's a common style of catch line for vendor...

...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...

Category 5 and 5e • Category 5 and 5e • Category 5 • Category 5 (CAT5) cabling is good, solid cable for 100-Mbps LANs. The Category 5 standard has been around since 1991, so it’s well established. You’ll find existing Category 5 installati...

Serial ATA technology • Serial ATA technology. • Introduced in the mid 1980s, the Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) interconnect soon became the industry-standard parallel input/output bus interface for connecting internal storage devices. ...

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 ...