HP ProCurve has launched a core switch that it hopes will challenge Cisco's market dominance. The 8212zl, launched on Monday, is a scalable chassis core switch platform with 692Gbps switch capacity ...

I know pretty much how smaller switches work but my question mainly has to do with how switches work in a campus environment. <P>At my university the network services people told me that they use a ...

Cisco Systems’ upgrade of its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) software for the Catalyst 6500 core switch is a major step in core-switching redundancy. The new IOS can separate core processes to ...

Networking giant Cisco is shifting its core Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching certification to have a greater software emphasis by sharpening the focus on software-defined ...

How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...