Explains the three layers critical to network design: Access, Distribution, and Core Anyone involved in networking and/or telecommunications should be somewhat familiar with the use of layers. Many ...

Once upon a time, layer-2 unicast performance tests would have produced by far the most important results, but that’s changed. Measuring unicast throughput on all ports, once considered the acid test ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Networks empower people to do their jobs, to ...

An enterprise campus generally refers to a network in a specific geographic location. It can be within one building or span multiple buildings near each other. A campus network also includes the ...

A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...

TRENDnet, which most of you know from their consumer lineup of wireless routers, access points and network adapters also dabbles in the SMB networking market space. From the bottom up, TRENDnet offers ...

For the first time since I have been at my employer, we have been told that later this year, the auditors will be looking at our operations. I have been working with getting our Cisco switches up to ...

Allied Telesis announced the release of two models of the x240 Series. x240-10GHXm: 8-port 90W PoE++ Multi-Gigabit Edge Switch with 2 SFP+ ports packed in a half-rack size device x240-26GHXm: 24-port ...