Month: November 2011

WAN – Wide Area Network

WAN – The phrase “wide area network” in a word is known as WAN.  That wide ranging network works collectively with the help of hardware such as computers and related resources. Cisco has introduced a lot of devices such as modem and routers for WAN, protocols and technologies such as ATM, Cisco frame relay etc so to provide a better wide area network (WAN) environment.

Basic Cisco and Juniper router Configuration

This article will help you understand and manage basic configuration of devices from different brands. With Cisco and Juniper router configurations, you will be able to manage network that is made of devices from other sellers, not only Cisco.  In that way, you will not be in problems when making some implementation, changes or troubleshooting connectivity issues on multi-brand network topologies.

What is my IP address

Online visitors usually want to know their IP address for certain reasons like: for game playing purpose, technical support, remote connection and proxy detection etc. Moreover, they can also check is their address changed or still there are using their personal e-mail server. If you want to gallop your personal e-mail or web server then static IP address will best for you.

IP Address – Internet Protocol address: Basic about IPv4

An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is actually a numerical tag that is assigned to each participating device over the network either a computer or a printer. These devices are attached via networking using internet protocols for their communication.

Two main functions of an IP address are given under:

  1. Identifying a host or a network interface
  2. allocating addresses