With Wireless LANs becoming mainstream, organizations want to tightly integrate Wireless LANs with wired LANs. Network managers are reluctant or unwilling to deploy Wireless LANs unless those LANs ...

The LAN has emerged as a security risk, subject to insider misuse as well as external attacks. Threats can arise from rogue hosts on wireless, guests plugging into open ports in a conference room, ...

The freedom of wireless networking is enticing, but the accompanying risks are daunting. If you're running a wireless LAN on the 802.11 standards, you may think your organization is secure. Think ...

Access-control lists, originally designed for routers to deny or admit packets entering a network from a WAN, have drawbacks in controlling a diverse group of users accessing LANs. ACLs have no ...

This is the second article in our spotlight on the evolution of the SGi/Gi-LAN, a core element in today’s mobile networks. Faced with an explosion of mobile devices and a shift in traffic patterns ...

The LAN edge presents a broad and potentially vulnerable target for cyber criminals, and many LAN solutions lack built-in security, so they end up being secured with add-on solutions that add cost and ...

Most enterprise LAN switch vendors such as Alcatel, Allied Telesyn, Avaya, 3Com, Cisco, Dell, Enterasys, Extreme, Foundry, HP and Nortel include intelligent features such as Layer 3 and 4 access ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Versa Networks, the global leader in AI/ML-powered Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), today announced Versa Secure ...

In my recently published “Deciphering wiring” post, I discussed (among other things) the multiple spans of Ethernet cable that shuttle LAN packets between various areas of the house and the downstairs ...

Celona Inc., a California-based private 5G network provider, today announced two new capabilities to its enterprise clients and partner roster. Puneet Shetty, Celona’s vice president of product ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) we know today starts simply, with a switch connecting a computer to the network. But that inevitably gets more complex as you add routers and the occasional firewall to ...