The volume and reach of connected things are rapidly expanding, with 2020 marking the first time that the number of IoT connections surpassed the number of non-IoT online connections. There were 11.7 ...

Network protocols are formal standards and policies consisting of rules, procedures, and formats that define how data is exchanged over networks. They ensure that devices can communicate effectively, ...

Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, CC-Link, Mudbus, OPC UA are common in industrial automation. SNMP, REST, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, ODBC, OLE-DB and OPC UA (again) are protocols common in the IT space.

Last time, one of our readers challenged VoIP market leaders Cisco, Nortel and Avaya on their commitment to open standard, cost-effective VoIP solutions. Today, we’d like to add our observations and ...

Management processes conducted on a periodic basis to identify, report, and analyze reasonably foreseeable internal and external risks and vulnerabilities, likely threats, impacts, and potential ...

Broadcasters and media organizations are facing a strategic reset. Rising content costs, declining ARPU, platform fragmentation, and an accelerating shift towards cloud-based operations are straining ...

Google, through its Nest Labs home automation division, today announced another major step toward the formation of an ecosystem for connected home devices and apps. Nest, along with Samsung, ARM, and ...

Now having pushed past its half-century anniversary, the seemingly countless forms of Ethernet, from SPE to PoE, have become an integral part of communications systems across every technological field ...

There were 18.8 billion IoT connections in 2024, according to market research firm IoT Analytics. And researchers there estimated the number of IoT connections will swell to 41.1 billion by 2030. The ...