Upgrading to a managed switch for my home unlocked increased control, VLAN support, link aggregation, and other advanced ...

Say hello to Quality of Service, Link Aggregation, Access Control Lists, Spanning Tree Protocol, and IGMP Snooping.

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

I'm doing a bit of research for my boss since we need a gigabit PoE switch. We're looking between a WS-C3560X-24T-L and WS-C3560X-24T-S. The difference is LAN Base vs IP Base. We need to tag traffic ...

PoE switches generate almost five times more heat than data-only switches, heat that has to be taken into account in switch closet design. As companies supplant digital handsets with IP phones, they ...