Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

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 ...

Despite the clear cost benefits, white-box switches outfitted with independent network operating systems (NOS) solutions have seen only limited adoption in leading enterprise IT shops. That’s due to ...

WAYNE, N.J. — Nayna Networks will unveil a first-mile Ethernet access box Monday (May 3) that allows carriers to choose between point-to-point Ethernet and Ethernet passive optical network (PON) ...

Is there some sort of switch to toggle an ethernet connection on and off...or even an ethernet a/b switch?<BR><BR>I need something that would go in between two ethernet cables and with some sort of ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. New network ...

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 ...

Microchip Technology has announced its next-generation of LAN969x Ethernet switches with Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), scalable bandwidths from 46 Gbps to 102 Gbps and a powerful 1 GHz single-core ...

Call it the March of the White Brigade. Sales of white box switches outpaced the Ethernet switch market as a whole in 2013, which was a record year for switch sales, according to Dell’Oro Group. The ...

One of the biggest growth technologies in the industrial market is Ethernet based networking. Most industrial Ethernet standards use the IEEE 802.3 standard Ethernet protocol giving them the ability ...