We are having a storage area network installed in a few days. The vendor who is installing the equipment has requested that we configure the switch being used for what they are calling link ...

It may be hard to believe, but 1G bit/sec is just not enough bandwidth for many network connections between LAN switches and from switches to high-demand network servers. Along with the ...

At least until the standards are done for 40G and 100G Ethernet, link aggregation will remain the preferred high-speed uplink method. Link aggregation, described in IEEE standard 802.3ad, binds ...

Hi everyone<BR><BR>Quick one really. I'm setting up a NAS box which will be directly connected via gigabit to a VMWare ESXi host machine. The VMs will be accessing the storage from that NAS box using ...

I understand that I can create a port channel on a cisco router to allow redundant links from a switch to connect to the router, but how would I accomplish this if I wanted to have a link going to a ...

When you have multiple people using a NAS, concurrently reading and writing data, whether in a home or business setting, ...

Hammerhead Systems last week enhanced its multiservice switch with software the company says will improve a customers’ ability to aggregate Layer 2 services, such as Ethernet, as they migrate to Multi ...

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TP-Link®, a leading global provider of consumer and business networking products, today announced the expansion of the TP-Link Omada business line with the ...