Should you consider investing in a network switch? Here’s why it might help optimize your home internet connection and bring ...

How-To. Using ntopng for Network Visualization and Monitoring. By Tom Fenton; 03/04/2025; In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed ...

Which means that I am now out of Ethernet ports, but I still have two more computers in my office that can benefit from a ...

Stacking network switches can prove useful when building a local area network (LAN) at home or in the office. If you have many devices to connect, grouping network switches can allow them to share ...

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 ...

Automating an enterprise’s switch upgrade using Python and open-source tools saved time, money, and human errors compared to doing it manually. Automation can make a big difference in repetitive ...

Ethernet switches’ and ethernet splitters’ names and functions are similar. However, they perform two different tasks with dramatically different results.

A list of free Microsoft Visio alternative software to prepare complex diagrams includes Kivio, Graphviz, Inkspace, Open Office Draw, and DIA Diagram Editor.

When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. Here's the difference between a switch and a router and how they work together.

Ethernet switches’ and ethernet splitters’ names and functions are similar. However, they perform two different tasks with dramatically different results.