If the datacenter is the computer – and it certainly is for hundreds of companies comprising somewhere well north of half of server sales worldwide – then the Ethernet fabric, consisting of switches ...

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

You might be thinking that with all of the investment in AI systems these days that the boom in InfiniBand interconnect sales would be eating into sales of high-end Ethernet interconnects in the ...

The market for Ethernet switches continued to gather strength in the second quarter of this year, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. The Ethernet switch market is “operating at a new ...

In a home with just one working coax jack, investing in the Google Nest Wi-Fi Pro mesh system ensured I'm getting the ...

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 ...

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. New network ...

Network technologies have come and gone, but the Ethernet switch has survived and continues to evolve, currently making its move to 40G and 100G. Here’s a roundup of our latest and most evergreen ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Riverstone Networks Inc. has designed a new chassis and programmable-processor architecture to achieve Layer 3 10-Gbit Ethernet switching at less than $10,000 a port, including all ...

Numbers from the second quarter of 2004 show that businesses seem to be spending again on Ethernet switching--but Cisco Systems is set to claim much of the growth, analysts say. "Overall IT spending ...