As demands in the access and enterprise networking markets increase, communication equipment designers are faced with the challenge of delivering advanced functionality in network equipment that can ...

As we close in on 2006, LAN switching has been a part of enterprise networks for years. Typically, as technology matures the focus moves away from “speeds and feeds” to other areas. Although many ...

If you stack it, they will come. At least that’s the new guiding enterprise philosophy of 3Com Corp. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company jumped out of the big-enterprise switching business two years ...

With an eye toward helping corporate customers add faster and more intelligent pipes to their LANs, Cisco last week added a new version of its stackable aggregation switch and a new Gigabit Ethernet ...

Colorado Springs, Colo. — Alcatel SA has moved to power-over-Ethernet versions of its popular OmniSwitch stackable Ethernet family. The 6850 switches are offered in a variety of options–with or ...

There are some ingenious ideas that make people slap their foreheads and ask, “Why didn’t I think of that?” QLogic built the SANbox 5200, its new FC (Fibre Channel) switch around one such idea: ...

Cisco Systems Inc.’s Linksys division thinks small and medium-size businesses (SMB) should have some of the same features enterprises get, such as backup power and virtualization, when they attach ...

In recent years the evolution of packet processor and CPU technology has permitted unprecedented levels of performance and functionality to be incorporated into fixed form factor switches which, ...