What exactly is network as a service? NaaS isn't a new concept, but that doesn't make it any less confusing. Most people seem to have an idea of what it is, but those ideas don't always match.

Content-centric networking -- sometimes called named data networking -- is an information-based network architecture alternative to traditional IP networking. Content-centric networking shifts focus ...

When proxy servers first hit the internet scene in the early 1990s, they had a relatively simple function: caching frequently accessed web pages to speed up load times. Proxy servers still serve that ...