You may recall that Ethernet networks are based on a protocol calledCarrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection, commonly knownas CSMA/CD. This means that data packets from the various ...

I use Distributed Observer occasionally at work to see what's going on over the network and to help trouble shoot some things. At work all we use are hubs so everything is broadcast. I wanted to try ...

Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

As more and more of our network infrastructure gets older and/or fails, we are going to a switched configuration instead of the hubs that were initially used to set up the network. We have used mostly ...

It's all about those VLANs.

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 ...

Many small businesses are trying to expand the capacity of their existing networking setups as they modernize and transform. Under normal circumstances, small business networking is difficult, but the ...

Arista Networks on Thursday announced that it has acquired Big Switch Networks, a network monitoring and software-defined networking (SDN) pioneer, to give customers better visibility into their cloud ...

Ruckus is expanding its ICX portfolio with switches designed to streamline management of audio and video content over ...