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Engineering, Politics, Regulation, or Social Dynamic?

Posted Friday, March 28, 2008 9:46 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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I'm a bit of a geek. I confess. And when I teach telecommunications, I tend to bring a technical flavor to what I teach, though I strive to make sure it is at an audience-appropriate level. Spending time trying to turn a sales person into an engineer Read More...

PodSnacks: Addresses

Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/addressing.mp3
Sometimes we go for deeply technical topics. Sometimes we just go back to basics. Today is a back to basics day. In today's PodSnack, Dave takes you through the concept of addressing . You can listen to (or download) the PodSnack by clicking here Read More...

Controlling the Flow

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:41 PM by mgilbert :: 1 Comments
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I was reading an article on the great Comcast P2P debate. It's been in the news for a few weeks now. Comcast has been trying to deal with the massive volume of traffic that can be produced by such peer-to-peer applications as BitTorrent and Gnutella Read More...

PodSnacks: Transport Layer (Layer 4)

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/transport_layer.mp3
Let's continue on our journey up the OSI Reference Model . The next stop is Layer 4. I'm going to talk to you about the Transport Layer . This is the first of the end-to-end layers, and provides a critical function: verification of end-to-end Read More...

PodSnacks: Transmission Control Protocol

Posted Tuesday, December 25, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/tcp.mp3
Not too many PodSnacks ago, we talked about the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), so it seems only right to balance that out with an overview of the other major Transport Layer protocol in the TCP/IP protocol suite: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Read More...

PodSnacks: Real-time Transport Protocol

Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q4/rtp.mp3
Since we spent a little time talking about the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) yesterday, this seemed like a good time to take a look at another Transport Layer function that is increasingly important today: the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). RTP plays Read More...

PodSnack: User Datagram Protocol

Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 1 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/udp.mp3
The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of four procotols in the TCP/IP protocol suite that lives at the Transport Layer . It plays an important function in verifying that a transmission is correct when received (although it does not correct anything Read More...

PodSnacks: Flow Control

Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q4/flow_control.mp3
We recently recorded a new ExperTech title on Transport Layer and Application Services Layer concepts (is that a shameless plug or what?), and the topic of flow control came up. This is a mechanism by which a transmitter is limited in what it can send. Read More...

PodSnacks: Switch

Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 7:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q3/switch.mp3
Since I'm working at home, I thought I'd rope one of my children into helping me out with today's PodSnack. Our topic today is another basic concept: that's a switch ? I thought the podcast was just the two of us, but then I discovered Read More...

PodSnacks: Transport Layer

Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/transport_layer.mp3
The snow has finally stopped falling, and I've now finished digging out from what I think was about 34 inches of it. Thank goodness for neighbors with snowblowers! Meanwhile, let's continue on our journey up the OSI Reference Model . The next Read More...

PodSnacks: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/tcp.mp3
Not too many PodSnacks ago, we talked about the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), so it seems only right to balance that out with an overview of the other major Transport Layer protocol in the TCP/IP protocol suite: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Read More...

PodSnacks: The User Datagram Protocol

Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/udp.mp3
The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of two procotols in the TCP/IP protocol suite that lives at the Transport Layer . It plays an important function in verifying that a transmission is correct when received (although it does not correct anything if Read More...

PodSnacks: The OSI Reference Model

Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:33 AM by mgilbert :: 2 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q1/osi-rm.mp3
Sometimes, getting back to the basics is a good idea. Today's PodSnack provides a high-level overview of the OSI Reference Model and the function of its seven layers. The OSI-RM dates back to the mid 1970s, and many aspects of it have altered somewhat Read More...