A network switch is a small hardware device that links multiple computers together within one local area network, wide area network and different network topology. Network switches work at Data Link ...

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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 ...

Over the past two decades, many industrial operations began building digital backbones into their production platforms. Like their counterparts in office environments, they wanted more data to enhance ...

I have often wondered why manufacturers of Ethernet switches severely restrict the number of SPAN/port-monitoring sessions they allow to be configured. I can only assume that they are limited because ...

If you have ever had to create a virtual switch for Hyper-V that is not an external switch, you may have had to stop and think about it. Do you want to go Private or do you want to go Internal? Let's ...