“The quest for securing patents in the routing and switching industry might resemble navigating through a stormy sea….Yet, every skilled sailor knows, within the tumult, there lie paths towards calm ...

As electronic devices get more complex—with more functions and potentially more inputs and outputs—the strategy for testing becomes more complex as well. Generally, an efficient test-system design ...

The Cisco Silicon One portfolio now provides the highest bandwidth routing and switching silicon in a unified product portfolio, Cisco Fellow Rakesh Chopra tells CRN. Cisco Systems is introducing ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Networks empower people to do their jobs, to ...

The appliance model, where the hardware and software were tightly controlled by a single vendor, held sway in the datacenter for decades. But that top-to-bottom stack been peeling apart, oddly enough ...

Routing got the early lead on switching thanks to Cisco, then the two technologies melded and evolved. It was the debate that separated Cisco from the pack and forever changed the enterprise network ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Routers and switches are filled with technologies, some ...

LinkedIn will use open source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) as the switching platform for its Project Falco. The project focuses on decoupling network hardware and software, and it ...