WAYNE, N.J. — In keeping with its credo to reduce costs in enterprise networking designs, Adtran will release a set of Ethernet boxes this week that collapse switching, routing, firewall, and VPN ...

Cloud native networks are not SDN reborn but a fundamentally different way to look at networks. While SDN seemed to take physical network machines and virtualized them, CNFs are not merely ...

An increasing number of businesses, school districts and healthcare facilities are delving into Smart Ethernet switches with Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology—and reaping big benefits for their IP ...

In the home or office, the Ethernet switch functions as a central station connecting computers, printers and every other wired device to each other. The switch is also wired to the router and modem to ...

PowerDsine has been awarded an “Ethernet switch assembly patent” in the United States, extending its portfolio of power-over-Ethernet (PoE)-related patents. The patent #6,909,943, issued by the United ...

Standing in the networking aisle of an electronics retail store, anybody could mistakenly pick up a router instead of an Ethernet switch or vice versa. The product packages as well as the devices ...

For decades, networks have been built on the same fundamental principle: dedicated hardware appliances for each network function. Need a firewall? Buy a box. Need load balancing? Purchase another ...

Belden Inc., a global leader in signal transmission solutions for mission-critical applications, has extended its range of configurable modular industrial Ethernet switches in the Hirschmann MSP30 ...