CAN - Networking for Real-Time Systems
The scope of that article is to describe the way of working of the Controller Area Network protocol. It will be compared, sometimes, with the Ethernet technology, because there are certain similarities between the two.
(Added: 6-May-2000 Hits: 1682 Rating: 7.00 Votes: 1) Rate It | Recommend It
Outlining Components Needed for Creating a VPN Server
Over the last few years, VPNs have gone from relative obscurity to great popularity. Even so, you don’t want to throw together a VPN haphazardly. After all, a VPN is a direct portal into your private network, and it is essential that it be secure. If your VPN isn’t secure, then nothing else on your network will be secure either. In this article, I will help you to plan your corporate VPN. In doing so, I will discuss the various components that make up a VPN and some of the decisions that you will have to make regarding those components.
(Added: 14-Oct-2005 Hits: 284 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It | Recommend It
Planning for High Availability: Attempt to Eliminate Downtime
To ensure that systems are available for requests when called upon, you have to plan for the failure of those same resources that are being requested. Hard drives have MTBF (mean time between failure), viruses go undetected, name it… disaster can happen. The only way to keep systems ‘available’ to those who request them is to deploy those systems in a manner that will keep them available to those requests.
(Added: 25-Aug-2004 Hits: 252 Rating: 3.00 Votes: 1) Rate It | Recommend It
Planning for High Availability: Disaster Recovery Planning
In this article, we will discuss what every Microsoft Windows Administrator and Engineer should think about when trying to manage their environments in the scope of planning for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. In this article we will cover many of the details administrators and engineers need to know about planning Disaster Recovery (DRP) for Windows Systems, as well as for their networks in general.
(Added: 7-Jan-2005 Hits: 180 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It | Recommend It
Planning your Server Farm (Part 1)
In this series of articles, we will cover all that you will need to consider when planning to deploy a new server farm. A server farm is just lingo used to describe a grouping of servers that you use within you Local Area Network (LAN), usually tied to a high speed backbone if designed properly. In this article set we will look at considerations when deploying a server farm. These tips and tricks will no doubt help you if you are unfamiliar with planning a design, ordering such equipment and deploying it.
(Added: 15-Apr-2005 Hits: 331 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It | Recommend It