Say hello to Quality of Service, Link Aggregation, Access Control Lists, Spanning Tree Protocol, and IGMP Snooping.

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

Upgrading to a managed switch for my home unlocked increased control, VLAN support, link aggregation, and other advanced ...

Ever look at the back of your router and ask yourself “WHY!?!?” There are only four ethernet ports there. Four. How can anyone live and thrive with such a measly amount of wired network connections?

So, we have some testing labs and some equipment in those labs that can connect to a PC with a direct network connection - no router or switch, just a loopback cable to the device. Device is ...

Standing in the networking aisle of an electronics retail store, anybody could mistakenly pick up a router instead of an Ethernet switch or vice versa. The product packages as well as the devices ...

Here's what you need to know about the differences between a managed and unmanaged switch when looking to create a Local Area Network. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Cisco Catalyst 9500 Series switches are enterprise-class core and aggregation layer switches, supporting full programmability and serviceability. Based on an x86 CPU, the Cisco Catalyst 9500 ...

Marvell’s Prestera DX1500 industrial switch family puts time-sensitive networking (TSN) into play. A new series of switch chips rolled out by Marvell brings time-sensitive networking (TSN) to factory ...