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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Cisco switch configured as an access layer port with a voice vlan is actually an 802.1Q trunk that will only allow traffic tagged on the voice vlan. The last exception is very seldom used, but does ...

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 ...

Over the last few years, IT hardware manufacturers have observed a slowdown in product sales due to low global demand. This trend was evident in 2016, with global IT spend declining by around 0.6% to ...