Whenever you see a box with a few Ethernet ports, it’s either referred to as a router, or a switch, sometimes people will even use the word “hub”! Fortunately, it’s simpler than it may seem. A router ...

Fiber optic cables are commonly used for core network lines and connections that must span long distances, such as those used by Internet service providers. This is due to the fact that fiber optic ...

Ethernet Switch Market Size & Cisco’s Presence Ethernet switches are primarily used by enterprises and service providers that have large-scale network requirements. Switches are designed in a way to ...

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Every AirPort base station these days has three free Ethernet ports (in addition to the one that connects to your broadband modem), so it’s easy to expand your wireless network with wires. There are ...

Unmanaged switches help to make setting up local networks easier, allowing you to connect multiple devices together without needing to go through a complex configuration process. The terms "Gigabit" ...

Since these applications are remote, Power over Ethernet (PoE) provided via a local Ethernet switch would be the best option.

If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that ...

It's been almost a year since many of us started working from home, and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon. In previous Jason Squared shows, Jason Cipriani and I have talked ...

Reader Stuart Landay would like to combine wireless and wired networking. He writes: Is it possible to hook up an Ethernet switch to an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station in order to connect more than ...

Arista’s 800GbE shipments neared a 3 million port annualized run-rate in 2Q25, its quickest ever timeframe to approach this ...