A TechRepublic reader recently e-mailed me to ask about limiting the bandwidth on a Cisco Catalyst switch port. In fact, there are a number of uses for this configuration. Let's take a closer look. A ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Taiwan's Accton Technology Corp. Tuesday (Sept. 13) rolled out a 48-port gigabit managed Ethernet switch powered by a single chip from Agere Systems. According to Accton (Hsinchu, ...

One way to boost network security is to use Cisco's Port Security feature to lock down switch ports. Learn the basics of port security, and find out how to configure this feature. A growing challenge ...

The rise of cloud- and software-defined networking (SDN) may be shaking up the traditional networking market, but that hasn't stopped networking players, ranging from Cisco Systems to Brocade ...

Cisco is prepping its high-end data-center Nexus switch family for high-speed Ethernet that will better support high-bandwidth applications such as AI and cloud-native. The vendor rolled out five new ...

Network technologies have come and gone, but the Ethernet switch has survived and continues to evolve, currently making its move to 40G and 100G. Here’s a roundup of our latest and most evergreen ...

The C1300-8MGP-2X enterprise switch brings 2.5Gb and SFP technologies to a home office with minimum fuss thanks to a well-designed mobile app. The passively cool unit offers a 120W PoE budget for ...

There’s no such thing as a dedicated iSCSI switch because iSCSI storage traffic runs on Ethernet networks. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t have a discussion about iSCSI switches as there are ...