Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...
Nortel recently announced a couple of stand-alone Layer 2 Ethernet switches for small and midsized businesses. The BayStack 325 switches each have 24 ports of 10/100M bit/sec copper-based Ethernet in ...
Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...
Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.
When integrating a network stack into a new hardware platform and possibly a new operating system, performance is typically a critical design goal. When attempting to optimize network performance, it ...
A network device that integrates routing and switching by forwarding traffic at layer 2 speed using layer 7 (application layer) information. For example, an XML switch can analyze the XML tags at the ...
Start-up Woven Systems this week is expected to launch its 10G Ethernet data center switch — a box the company says one-ups the switching power of Cisco, Force10 Networks and Foundry Networks 10G gear ...
Storage networks are constantly evolving. From traditional Fibre Channel to IP-based storage networks, each technology has its place in the data center. IP-based storage solutions have two main ...