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

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

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 ...

Arista’s 800GbE shipments neared a 3 million port annualized run-rate in 2Q25, its quickest ever timeframe to approach this ...

Along with its incredible speed, bandwidth and flexibility, industrial Ethernet comes with routers, switches and over 20 years of growing features and functions from the commercial and industrial ...

To keep your devices connected and up to speed, having the best ethernet switch can improve your experience. If you are in an office or building where you have many devices, you will need more ports ...

You may need to monitor, or mirror, a port on an Ethernet switch to debug a data protocol, check for inappropriate use of your network or resolve a security breach. Using a monitor port on a network ...

Since these applications are remote, Power over Ethernet (PoE) provided via a local Ethernet switch would be the best option.

When it comes to ethernet switches, what do you get for the extra money, besides more ports? You can buy a basic eight-port ethernet switch for connecting PCs ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Cisco ...

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 ...