Industrial networks increasingly incorporate switching gear to avoid bottlenecks that can bog down critical operations. Networks are starting to become a critical part of many industrial installations ...

A network switch is a small hardware device that links multiple computers together within one local area network, wide area network and different network topology. Network switches work at Data Link ...

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 ...

Modern networks are critical for any enterprise. Networks deliver business applications, multimedia messages and key data to end users around the world. A fundamental element that networks have in ...

Excerpt from CCNA Practice Questions (Exam 640-802), 3rd Edition. Select the appropriate media, cables, ports, and connectors to connect switches to other network devices and hosts. Explain the ...

Packet-switching networks -- networks which break data up into chunks called packets before transport -- help make your business communications stable and efficient. Once used only for data ...

Much is being made of Facebook's Open Compute Project's announcement that they were soliciting input for an open source top-of-rack switch. Soliciting input from the industry and getting sign-off from ...