I'm working for a private company with approx. 100 employees. We're planning for a complete infrastructure overhaul in our HQ to be done within this calendar year, starting from network infrastructure ...

There are some ingenious ideas that make people slap their foreheads and ask, “Why didn’t I think of that?” QLogic built the SANbox 5200, its new FC (Fibre Channel) switch around one such idea: ...

As demands in the access and enterprise networking markets increase, communication equipment designers are faced with the challenge of delivering advanced functionality in network equipment that can ...

SMC Networks this week unveiled two stackable Gigabit Ethernet switches with optional 10 Gigabit uplinks, aiming them at enterprise and workgroup environments. The TigerStack 10/100/1000M bit/sec ...

How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...

Home lab builders often obsess over servers and switches, yet the biggest quality of life gains can come from tiny, ...