When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect to another device on your network and use the internet, you're using two pieces of ...

I have a linksys 4 port switch/router which has served me well, but I now have more than 4 PCs I want on the network (main box, laptop, home theatre, wife's box and playing with SCSI box). I know I ...

After working through a longish discussion about Cisco routers for your CCNA lab, it will be nice to discuss switches. Thankfully, the choice of switches is a lot easier to figure out than the choice ...

The single biggest cost for gear for a CCNP lab will be the cost of a layer 3 switch – assuming you really need one. Of the four CCNP exams, only the BCMSN exam requires a lot of LAN switch features.

The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. We called this ...