From LAN parties to getting work done, we've used our share of local networks. Here's a breakdown of what you need to meet the demands of your home or business. When you purchase through links on our ...

Call it NAC (Cisco’s Network Admission Control) or, well, NAC (network access control), or even NAP (Microsoft’s Network Access Protection). Any way you refer to it, these schemes for shutting out ...

It's not all shiny and chrome in the home lab ...

Ethernet splitter vs. switch: Which one do you need? Ethernet switches and ethernet splitters seem, at first glance, to be basically the same thing. Their names and functions are similar. However, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever look at the back of your router and ask yourself “WHY!?!?” There are only four ethernet ports there. Four. How can anyone live and thrive with such a measly amount of wired network connections?

Broadcom Inc. has announced a neural-network inference engine, the networking general-purpose neural-network traffic-analyzer (NetGNT) housed on a new, software-programmable and field-upgradable ...