OPNsense is powerful firewall firmware, rocking some incredible features not found in ISP-provided routers. One such feature is traffic shaping. It sounds strange, but this can prove invaluable when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

BT will not need to degrade certain types of traffic on its network because enough bandwidth will be created, according to one of the key executives behind the telco's next-generation network. Matt ...

Canada's TV regulator dealt a blow Wednesday to net neutrality by upholding the right of domestic Internet service providers (ISPs) to control online content and traffic. By Etan Vlessing, The ...

I'm currently in the process of investigating what options are available for networking bandwidth/traffic shaping. I've seen a couple of options thus far but I'm still confused about what the ...

I need to implement some rudimentary QOS over OpenVPN links - for the most part, I just need to (heavily) prioritize RDP traffic over non-RDP traffic, to minimize latency. It looks like a tcng setup ...