Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

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 ...

I know pretty much how smaller switches work but my question mainly has to do with how switches work in a campus environment. <P>At my university the network services people told me that they use a ...

In the age of AI, high-speed optical networking is more important than ever. Co-packaged optics removes the need for pluggable optics, simplifying network design while increasing resiliency. Arista ...

As more and more of our network infrastructure gets older and/or fails, we are going to a switched configuration instead of the hubs that were initially used to set up the network. We have used mostly ...