The typical small business probably has one or more unmanaged network switches to connect their PCs, servers and storage. While those unmanaged switches may still have value in parts of the network, ...

The so-called industry standard server, by which most people mean a machine based on an X86 processor and generally one made by Intel, has utterly transformed the datacenter. The ubiquity and ...

Chip designs are busting out beyond the reticle limits of lithography machines, making chiplets and high-bandwidth, in-package die-to-die interconnects ...

After a relatively sluggish year, multiple segments of the switch and router networking markets are due for a solid year of growth. Data center switches, in particular, are set for an AI-driven climb.

Stacking network switches can prove useful when building a local area network (LAN) at home or in the office. If you have many devices to connect, grouping network switches can allow them to share the ...

For networking builders, network switch is an essential component in their networking building plan. In a network deployment, switch channels incoming data from any of multiple input ports to the ...

The Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches are enterprise-class core and aggregation layer switches, supporting full programmability and serviceability. Based on an x86 CPU, the Cisco Catalyst 9500 ...

In Network World’s first hands-on assessment of the new 10G Ethernet switches, we put boxes from five major vendors through a comprehensive set of performance tests – both 1 and 10 Gigabit flavors of ...

Marvell is trying to strengthen its stronghold in networking switch chips with its latest generation of Prestera ASICs and Alaska Ethernet PHYs, which are used at the edge of the network to connect ...

I needed to reorganize the cabling in the server closet so I can reach the network switch after I put the upper deck in place on my model railroad. I need that extra 24" of depth for a turn. My wife ...

“[Cisco] is a little bit late to the party [and] we’re not stopping with the switches [and] we’re continuing to lap the field with integration to the full-stack solution as well, so we welcome the ...

On the heels of January reports, Arista Networks revealed during its Q4 2019 earnings call that it has acquired Big Switch Networks to boost network visibility. Data center and large campus networking ...