I have only a fairly basic understanding of networking, and am particularly light on understanding of routing, so looking for a little help from the Ars collective on this issue I have. At my place of ...

Initiatives like smart manufacturing require the free flow of information across a network architecture—from the point where data is first collected, to where that data is analyzed and contextualized ...

Don't be fooled into thinking that static routing is always the best tool for the job, however. The greatest negative to using static routes is that they don't scale as your network grows. This is ...

The Allen-Bradley Stratix 8300 Layer 3 managed switch extends the Stratix 8000 industrial switch family to provide VLAN and subnet routing capability using Cisco technology. By supporting inter-VLAN ...

We have recently spoken about IP routing, but there is something else that needs our attention, and it is all about the types of routes found in a routers routing table. It might sound confusing but ...

Networking is a fundamental aspect of modern computing, underpinning everything from small home offices to large enterprise data centers. For Linux system administrators and network engineers, a ...

Just this last week several customers have ironically all asked me the exact same question. “Can we use an Ethernet switch instead of a router for our Internet EBGP peering to our ISP(s)?” While ...

Rochester, N.Y. — Performance Technologies has introduced the CPC6620 PICMG 2.16 embedded Ethernet switch with 24 10/100/1000 Mbit switch ports, two 10-Gbit uplink ports and support for IPv6 routing.