While most people who build their own computer from chips want the finished product to do something useful, there’s something to be said about a huge bank of switches and a bunch of blinkenlights.

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It will come as no surprise that I am a gadget geek. I work all day on a desktop computer. At home, I'm either working on a PC or a Mac laptop. When I'm away from home, I usually rely on my tablet ...

If you find that having your hands on the keyboard and mouse still isn't giving you enough control over your computer, perhaps you'd like to let your feet in on the action, too. While some people ...

Recent announcements by all the once-and-future leaders of the network switch market have made it clear: In order to support the business, networks need to be more intelligent. That intelligence ...

Switches manage traffic, accepting packets from one location and forwarding that data to the appropriate network segment or destination. This creates the network "fabric" that interconnects servers ...