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 ...

March 12, 2024 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect ...

Computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. took the opportunity at this year’s Open Compute Project Global Summit to showcase a host of updates to its portfolio of network chips and switches for ...

You need at least a pair of “switches”, and you really need more. But there are multiple options for what you buy to do switching with for the lab, and those choices impact the topology you end up ...

Whenever you see a box with a few Ethernet ports, it’s either referred to as a router, or a switch, sometimes people will even use the word “hub”! Fortunately, it’s simpler than it may seem. A router ...

Before Wi-Fi became ubiquitous, Ethernet was the way to link devices together. By running Ethernet cables in a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), you could send traffic back and ...

Two decades ago, the hyperscalers and cloud builders started remaking the Ethernet switch market in the datacenter in their own image, and now it looks like AI training and inference is going to morph ...

P4 lets networks finally break free of rigid hardware, adding custom protocols, real-time visibility and smarter security ...

Broadcom Inc. has launched the Tomahawk Ultra Ethernet switch for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. Designed for HPC environments and AI clusters, the Tomahawk Ultra delivers ...

My home and home lab network are a mess. Over the years, connecting my lab's physical and virtual machines (VMs), SAN, NAS, and other projects using various network switches, and routers have become a ...

In a previous article, I wrote about/confessed what a mess my home/home lab networking was and discussed various tools I used to discover what devices were connected to my home network and where they ...