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Merging two offices, and the plan is to use a new Unifi router (not Cloud, used with a CloudKey) with the Unifi switches in place, and then have InstantOn APs for the wifi. The VLANS (1 and 2) were ...

A D-Link switch enables you to connect more devices to a single Internet feed than an ordinary router would. With a switch, you can extend your business network, providing enough connection ports to ...

When a network router doesn't have enough network ports to connect all the necessary devices, a switch can be used to add additional ports. In the case of business networks, switches are often ...

In the IP based Ethernet networks, data and voice services are often transmitted simultaneously over the network. Voice traffic, in particular, requires a higher forwarding priority than data traffic.

Q: I have a Cisco L3 3560 switch, 5 unmanaged switches and 150 users. I need to create 10 VLANs. How can I configure my VLAN given the switches I have? It depends on how many users you would need in ...