In the last newsletter, we continued a discussion of discarding voice vs. data packets. This time we’ll continue that discussion with a proposal for how data transmission could be greatly enhanced by ...

We live in an era where all of us are very much dependent on the internet. Staying connected with the world is made simple thanks to the palm-sized devices called smartphones. High-speed internet ...

The recently concluded operational validation of the Army’s first Network Service Center (NSC) in Germany proved that a brigade can replicate its battle command applications when deployed overseas.

This episode is available to stream on-demand. Every digital interaction whether an AI query, a cloud workload, or a simple web search begins with a data packet. But what actually happens behind the ...

The Internet works by chopping data into chunks called packets. Each packet then moves through the network in a series of hops. Each packet hops to a local Internet service provider (ISP), a company ...

Messages and data travel around networks in a packet. A packet is a structure that carries a segment of data. The recommended packet size is different depending on network types. Wireless network have ...

Pandemic lockdowns led to an explosion in virtual private networks (VPNs), but a new report warns these 'private tunnels' are vulnerable to a particularly insidious attack that analyzes the size of ...

If you’ve ever been to a capture the flag hacking competition (CTF), you’ve probably seen some steganography challenges. Steganography is the art of concealing data in plain sight. Tools including ...

Data that are transmitted in packets, which is the architecture of the Internet. Increasingly, all data are packet data as the Internet protocol (IP) is used to transmit every kind of media, including ...

During the past decade, the Defense Department and federal agencies in general have embraced the idea of using commercial software whenever possible. Why build when it's less expensive to buy? Why ...