Computerworld

The Physical Layer: Understanding the OSI Model

Thanks for your comments on my first EtherGeek post on understanding the OSI Model. I especially enjoyed learning new ways to remember the OSI Model; for example: Please Do Not Throw Stale Pizza Away.
Electronic Design

Physical-Layer Management’s Role in Network-Equipment Development

Network-equipment manufacturers use lab network environments to perform scenario testing on new products, and they need to be able to reconfigure those networks quickly, accurately, and ...
EDN

Intel rolls out physical-layer chips for networking applications

SAN JOSE — At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Corp. here today (Feb. 28) expanded its efforts in the high-end, physical-layer chip market for local- and wide-area networking applications. These new ...
EDN

Picolight Intros Optical Transceiver for Physical-Layer Network

Boulder, Colo.-based Picolight Inc. today introduced a pluggable optical transceiver that allows equipment manufacturers and system administrators to view the performance of an installed optical ...