Last time, I mentioned that vendors are offering more products that support IP Version 6, and it happens that Cisco this week unveiled a stackable switch with promised IPv6 support.

Ethernet switch vendors such as 3Com, Force10, Cisco, Extreme, Foundry and HP ProCurve constantly tussle with claims of the highest performance, density and latency. But keep in mind that what's ...

The other hybrid Cisco switch is the Nexus N9348Y, which has the same Silicon One E100 switch ASIC, but it is surrounded by a pair of the newer generation “Giglio” DPUs from AMD, which were announced ...

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 ...

The switch and router ASICs themselves are the last bastion of black boxery in the datacenter. You are lucky to find out the process technology used to etch them and to get a SerDes speed and a SerDes ...

The units F-Secure analyzed posed as Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series switches—trusted devices that connect computers on an internal network to route data between them. In this case, it appears the ...

3Com Corp. today will announce its highest-performance LAN switch to date, ... He added that the 7700R is priced as much as 25% less than similar switches from Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisco switches can do a lot of things besides just connect regular PCs to the network. That’s why you should use the switch ports optimally — they need a little extra configuration.

Extreme Networks Inc. and Trapeze Networks Inc. last week introduced switch-based enterprise wireless LAN products to get a jump in a market that analysts expect to get crowded—and soon. Another ...

I've got a Palo Alto FW HA Active/Passive pair, connected to two different Cisco switches (one for Edge traffic, the other as a DMZ switch). The Cisco switch interface for one of the FW pairs is ...