I'm doing a bit of research for my boss since we need a gigabit PoE switch. We're looking between a WS-C3560X-24T-L and WS-C3560X-24T-S. The difference is LAN Base vs IP Base. We need to tag traffic ...

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 ...

Ethernet switch vendors such as 3Com, Force10, Cisco, Extreme, Foundry and HP ProCurve constantly tussle with claims of the highest performance, density and latency. But keep in mind that what’s ...

Routers (and Layer 3 switches) perform table lookups determining the next hop (next router or Layer 3 switch) along the route, which in turn determines the output port over which to forward the packet ...

The vendors continued to dominate the LAN switching and wireless access markets while Arista carved out a niche following the acquisition of Mojo Networks. Unlike other industry reports, Gartner’s ...

This isn’t a trick question, but one with a lot of tricky answers depending on how you define “big” and “fast.” Ethernet switch vendors such as 3Com Corp., Force10 Networks Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., ...

Fragment-free switching is also known as runtless switching and is a hybrid of cut-through and store-and-forward switching. Fragment-free switching was developed to solve the late-collision problem. A ...