In Network World's first hands-on assessment of the new 10G Ethernet switches, we put boxes from five major vendors through a comprehensive set of performance tests - both 1 and 10 Gigabit flavors ...

NETGEAR ProSafe Next-Gen Edge M5300 switches feature virtual chassis stacking technology with 48 Gbps interconnect per switch to simplify network operations, and meshed stacking provides ...

backbone bandwidth. For larger companies, that may mean a switch to 10-Gigabit Ethernet for at least parts of the corporate backbone. Though solution providers say 10G Ethernet remains a ...

Both cards, which are priced between $200 and $300, have worked seamlessly in my normal Fast Ethernet backbone, as well as with a Gigabit-Ethernet-over-copper switch, automatically moving between ...

The X-Pedition ER16 switch can handle a variety of switching duties and will become Enterasys’ strategic offering for the core of corporate networks. While the box gives network professionals a ...

While observers have largely preordained 10 Gigabit Ethernet as a carrier technology, Enterasys Networks is betting companies will be hungry for that kind of bandwidth too. The Cabletron spinoff ...

Gigabit Ethernet Dec 1, 2001 12:00 PM, By Kevin McNamara, CNE In 1998, the IEEE adopted the standard defining one Gigabit (1Gb)Ethernet over fiber optic cabling. In June of 1999, the standarddefining ...

Responding to the growing pervasiveness of Ethernet as the backbone technology on which modern communications networks are built, the 6U NETernity CP981RC CompactPCI 12- or 24-port unmanaged Layer ...

By upgrading switches, NICs, server CPU and memory, storage arrays and bandwidth, money can be saved down the road. The city of Alexandria, La., for example, used a VMware View VDI deployment as an ...

The managed switch that I picked up was a YuanLey 6-port switch, packing two 10 Gbps SFP+ ports and four 2.5 GbE Base-T Ethernet ports. Not only do I have more than twice the speed between my home ...