Is there a way to interrogate a SFP in a Cisco switch (2950, 3750, etc) in order to glean info about fiber quality? Noise, signal loss.. my company is too cheap to buy a real fiber tester.

Cisco Systems has made several improvements to its Ethernet switches to protect businesses from security threats and help them run Internet Protocol telephony more reliably. On Tuesday, the company ...

Cisco’s Catalyst C1300-8MGP-2X enterprise-class Ethernet switch manages small and medium-sized networks at speeds up to 10Gb. It has eight wired interfaces, a 120W PoE, and two 10G SFP sockets. The ...

Cisco as expected this week ushered in the new era of its Carrier Ethernet routers with an edge system designed to scale to 6.4Tbps. The ASR 9000 builds on the ASR series and QuantumFlow processor ...

There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. The first and more obvious way to create a programmable switch is to add ...

Backed by the Linux Foundation, the new Ultra Ethernet Consortium aims to increase the scale, stability, and reliability of Ethernet networks to satisfy AI’s high performance networking requirements.

So I live in Washington State and I've had DSL since CenturyLink was US West. Now I see that Quantum Fiber (CenturyLink's new name?) is offering fiber at my address. This is exciting, but I have some ...

Selling hardware into the modern datacenter is no easy feat, particularly when the needs of hyperscalers and enterprises have long since diverged. Hyperscalers and traditional enterprises some ...

Broadcom rolled out a 51.2-Tb/s switch ASIC suited for the colossal data centers used by cloud and other technology giants, promising what it touts as twice the bandwidth of any other switch silicon ...