The internet is now an essential part of everyday life, connecting billions of people across the globe. Yet, its beginnings ...

Voice over Internet protocol and public branch exchange systems -- VoIP and PBX, respectively -- are two ways of achieving the same end goal: to make and receive phone calls. Traditional PBX ...

Simply put, a VPN protocol is a set of rules that determine how data is encrypted and sent between a device and a VPN server. All internet-connected devices need a protocol in order to travel ...

migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has begun, and software is in place to prevent the address apocalypse that many were predicting. But before we see where are ...

Here’s how it works. An Internet Protocol address, also known as an IP address, is a unique number that identifies a device connected to the internet. It's a numeric label that is assigned to ...

Afterward, Cerf, Jon Postel, and Danny Cohen suggested a small but important change: They should take out all the routing information and put it into a new protocol, called the Internet Protocol (IP).