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PodSnacks: Going Viral

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://podcast.hill-vt.com/podsnacks/2007q2/viral.mp3
And now, for something completely different. Going viral ! There have been many things on the Internet that have gone viral, which basically means rapidly spreading across the community. YouTube videos often go viral, like this one did two years ago. Read More...

PodSnacks: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today, Paul gets back into the mix and talks to us a bit about the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). As the name implies, this TCP/IP protocol is designed to establish sessions between two systems, and to negotiate the parameters of these sessions, in Read More...

PodSnacks: Root Name Server

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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We recently did a PodSnack on the top-level domain (TLD) structure in DNS . In that PodSnack, I made reference to the root name server s in the Internet, and promised to explain it in another PodSnack. Well, there's no time like the present! Tune Read More...

PodSnacks: Top-Level Domain (TLD)

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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You use DNS every day, and probably never think about it. You most likely don't even think of what happens when you type in (or click on) a name like www.hill.com . What happens, however, is a relatively straightforward process of mapping the name Read More...

tHAWT Episode #114: What does chess boxing have to do with Telecom?

Posted Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:59 AM by thindson :: 2 Comments
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This week's episode episode fell on the same week as the new 3G iPhone but we figured there was enough coverage of that elsewhere so Mark, Michel and Myself decided to acknowledge the fact but leave it at that as there was plenty of other topics to Read More...

PodSnacks: Application Services Layer

Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Today we go back to the world of network models and architectures, and we take a quick look at the highest layer of the four-layer TCP/IP model: the Application Services Layer . This is the layer that is concerned with the various tasks we are trying Read More...

PodSnacks: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

Posted Friday, July 04, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Did you know that IP talks to itself? In many instances, when something goes wrong inside an IP network, there are small control messages generated that provide information about what happened. The same protocol that accomplishes this can also be used Read More...

tHAWT Episode #113: 20 years ago today

Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:16 PM by thindson :: 2 Comments
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This episode is being brought to you a little early due to the holiday weekend. Mark and I got on a call and discussed a number of issues covered in the links below. Outhouse races at Bristol , not real dunnies I would suspect NSFnet 20 years ago AT&T Read More...

PodSnacks: Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 1 Comments
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One of the core concepts underlying the World Wide Web is the concept of a markup language. Markup languages are programming languages used to provide information about information: a form of metalanguage. Confused? Take a listen and Michel will explain Read More...

PodSnacks: Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Our series on routing protocols is essentially complete, although we are likely to come back and fill in some technical details. We have some outstanding requests for information on MPLS and BGP. For now, however, let's go back to a few basics. In Read More...

PodSnacks: Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

Posted Monday, June 16, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Our series on routing protocols concludes as we explore a hybrid routing protocol from Cisco. Michel takes you through a description of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol . You can listen to (or download) the PodSnack by clicking here , or Read More...

PodSnacks: Exterior vs. Interior Gateway Protocols

Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Some time ago, we did a PodSnack on routing protocols . Since then, we've received a few requests to expand on various routing protocols, so we're going to set out, over the next few days, to classify routing protocols and then provider summaries Read More...

PodSnacks: The Internet

Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Recently, we talked about intranets and extranets , but I realized last night that we've never published a PodSnack that explains what the Internet is. That may seem trivial, but there are many people who couldn't tell the difference between the Read More...

PodSnacks: Extranets vs. Intranets

Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Now we're going to shift gears a bit, and change our focus to an Internet -related topic. Specifically, we're going to look at the difference between an intranet and an extranet . Mark will be your guide through these definitions. You can listen Read More...

PodSnack: WiMax

Posted Monday, May 26, 2008 6:00 AM by mgilbert :: 0 Comments
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Turning to a theme of wireless , today we're going to shift to a technology that has been sitting in the wings for some time, building hype and promise. It's been up and done with the on-again-off-again Sprint/Clearwire project. Most recently Read More...
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