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

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.