Last time, we discussed some ways compression techniques can help achieve greater throughput for file transfers, provided the data being transferred is inherently compressible. But the link between ...

If ad tech were a medical patient, a doctor would diagnose it with, among its other ailments, a bloat problem – specifically, bidstream bloat. According to eMarketer, the volume of bid requests ...

As the evidence that Comcast is doing something untoward with BitTorrent and other traffic on its network has mounted, the cable company has tried clumsily to fend off accusations of wrongdoing. The ...

Using methods to keep traffic flowing smoothly in a network. Although the term is often used synonymously with "traffic engineering," traffic shaping deals with managing the network moment to moment, ...

In the never-ending quest for better network performance, two technologies – compression and traffic shaping – are often touted as bringing great advantages to enterprise networks. And while it’s true ...

There are approximately two million electric vehicles on the road in the US today, which accounts for less than 1% of the 250 million vehicles currently sold in the country. And yet it’s increasingly ...

In the age of algorithmic overkill and monetisation maximalism, it’s not just about who you reach with your ads; it’s about how fast, how often, and through which traffic pipe. Welcome to the era of ...

Two researchers at Georgia Tech can tell you exactly how American ISPs shape Internet traffic, and which ones do so. Bottom line: of the five largest Internet providers in the country, the three cable ...

A dispute between the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) and Bell Canada generated lots of controversy in the telecommunications industry over the past few months, but it's safe to say ...

Kyle J. Davis is the technical marketing manager at Redis Labs. Even in the so-called modern web application, AJAX HTTP requests fly back and forth between the client and server layers, moving data in ...