Networking author Howard C. Berkowitz provides tips on avoiding and fixing data link network failures in Part 3 of his series.

Upon reaching the User Data phase, character replacement in the data link layer allows frame and lane alignment to be monitored and corrected if necessary. Character replacement is performed on both ...

In networking and communications, the formats, codes and procedures for transmitting a unit of data (frame, packet) from one node to another. Known as a "layer 2 protocol," the data link protocol ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 24, 2003 — Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY) today announced the availability of its MetroLink2T-2™ (CYL2T0201) link-layer device (LLD) — the first LLD on the ...

The technical name of a frame of data transmitted over the data link layer (layer 2) in a communications network. Ethernet and Token Ring are examples of this layer. Many people neither use the ...