Bus-and-Tag parallel channel architecture was once the primary storage interface used by IBM mainframes. As mainframes evolved, the ESCON architecture broadly replaced Bus-and-Tag. ESCON is now being ...

Some of these features were supported by other storage media, but the hard disk was the first medium to support all of these features. Consequently, the hard disk helped make many advances possible in ...

If Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) didn’t exist, network administrators would have to manually parcel out IP addresses from the available pool, which ...

Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) provide means for building Layer 2 communication on top of existing IP networks. VPLS can be built using various approaches. However, when building a ...