As it moves from a product culture to a platform culture, Cisco Systems Inc. is also reshaping a common perception of the 39-year-old firm as purely a networking business. It is playing a broader role ...

This week, two startups came out with SDN products they claim can rid networks of routers and core switches. Compass-EOS, ironically a maker of routers using silicon photonics, rolled out a product ...

Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

There’s healthy growth to be had in service provider routers and switches, according to third quarter data from three market research firms. The market for routers and switches combined grew 11% from ...

Software may be eating the world, but it’s all still largely running across very physical, and often very expensive, equipment. That is now slowly starting to change, though. Today, a startup called ...

Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financial services and tech organizations since 1995. When you plug in an out-of-the-box network ...

A Miami Beach, Florida, company on Tuesday sued Cisco Systems Inc. for alleged patent infringement, charging the networking giant with stealing its routing technology. ConnecTel LLC claims Cisco is ...

Cisco Systems released firmware updates for several routers and switches that run its IOS and IOS XE software in order to fix flaws in their autonomic networking infrastructure (ANI) feature. ANI is ...

Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financial services and tech organizations since 1995. If you plug in a network switch or an internet ...

Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! Check out this long read on NBA star Ja Morant’s slide. Really, really hope he gets his act together. Was this forwarded to you? Sign up here. Below: India uses ...

The vulnerability appears in the SNMP service that is part of Cisco's Internetwork Operating System (IOS), the OS that runs on most of the vendor's gear. SNMP is a protocol used to monitor and manage ...

Miscreants are actively exploiting two new zero-day vulnerabilities to wrangle routers and video recorders into a hostile botnet used in distributed denial-of-service attacks, researchers from ...