Network switches are important components of network infrastructure because they connect devices in a local area network and forward traffic between those devices. Switches are commonly available as ...

The typical small business probably has one or more unmanaged network switches to connect their PCs, servers and storage. While those unmanaged switches may still have value in parts of the network, ...

These common VLAN missteps can undermine your network security and performance. Discover the pitfalls to avoid.

Over the past two decades, many industrial operations began building digital backbones into their production platforms. Like their counterparts in office environments, they wanted more data to enhance ...

A family of Allen‑Bradley Stratix 5200 managed industrial Ethernet switches are designed to enhance and support integration between IT and OT. A family of switches developed by Rockwell Automation in ...

So, as some of you know from my previous posts, I'm presently managing a network of about 150 seats + a few servers at a small outsourcing "call center". I have, over time, got a large number of ...

I'm looking into getting a managed switch to learn how to setup VLANs. Ultimately I want to setup separate VLANs to segregate devices in the future home. Right now I only have a handful of unmanaged ...

Ethernet-based OT (operations technology) networks are commonplace today, but switch selection and network topology design continue to be an afterthought in many cases. In the past, TCP/IP-based ...

These days, a switch is a switch, right? Well, not necessarily. While all network switches move data from point A to point B, many enterprise-grade switches have significant hardware and software ...