Independent spanning trees, often realised as completely independent spanning trees (CISTs), form a foundational concept in network design and routing. They consist of multiple spanning trees ...

Those who had an opinion last week were split evenly: CCNA labs need either 2 or 3 switches, and CCNP labs need either 3 or 4. But why? We saw a few opinions floating around the blog last week, but ...

This paper considers the problem of determining the mean and distribution of the length of a minimal spanning tree (MST) on an undirected graph whose arc lengths are independently distributed random ...

Ok, so my first question is would an issue with spanning tree affect the response time with a ping? I have a switch that is doing some weird stuff and my employees keep complaining about slowness with ...

It is shown how most methods of measuring inflation and growth have an underlying spanning tree. The spanning tree whose resulting inflation (growth) estimates are least sensitive to the choice of ...

A large flat layer 2 network is the key to a new unified fabric data center. The idea is that everything in the data center – servers, appliances and storage – should be part of one big flat layer 2 ...