Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Routers and switches are filled with technologies, some ...

The Cisco Silicon One portfolio now provides the highest bandwidth routing and switching silicon in a unified product portfolio, Cisco Fellow Rakesh Chopra tells CRN. Cisco Systems is introducing ...

Routing got the early lead on switching thanks to Cisco, then the two technologies melded and evolved. It was the debate that separated Cisco from the pack and forever changed the enterprise network ...

New switches support growing SMB, MSP, and enterprise network requirements with 10G aggregation, 100G backbone scalability, ...

If the datacenter is the computer – and it certainly is for hundreds of companies comprising somewhere well north of half of server sales worldwide – then the Ethernet fabric, consisting of switches ...

With the dividing line between switching and routing blurring among the hyperscalers and cloud builders, it is no wonder to us that switching is growing as Ethernet switch ASICs get more and more ...

Rate your favorite Cisco Press books. Chapter 3, “Switch Operation,” presents a functional overview of how multilayer switching (MLS) is performed at Layers 3 and 4. The actual MLS process can take ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Network design is undergoing a quiet revolution as old ...

Today, Arista Networks announced upgrades to its R-Series platform — based on the latest merchant silicon from Broadcom — that Arista says is twice the density and half the power of custom routing ...