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

As more applications come onto the local area network (LAN), it is time to look into simple and immediate ways to expand the network’s ability to take on heavier traffic. The argument is simple: More ...

Default deny.

Call it NAC (Cisco’s Network Admission Control) or, well, NAC (network access control), or even NAP (Microsoft’s Network Access Protection). Any way you refer to it, these schemes for shutting out ...

Before Wi-Fi became ubiquitous, Ethernet was the way to link devices together. By running Ethernet cables in a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), you could send traffic back and ...

Wireless networking is terrific. I have the freedom to work on the Internet anywhere around my office or even outside on my porch. I do not worry about drilling holes in my walls or fishing wires.

A communications network that transmits data. Essentially all networks are data networks, including local area networks (LANs), public and private wide area networks (WANs) and the Internet, the ...

As network automation matures, a new breed of hybrid professionals with network engineering and software development skills ...