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.

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 ...

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