No managed services provider should lock itself out of the very network switches or routers it deploys, yet such accidents occur. Network switches have become increasingly complex and sometimes route ...

Banks, co-host of the Packet Pushers Podcast, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financial services and tech organizations since 1995. If you plug in a network switch or an internet ...

I assumed the only real way to fix this was to upgrade something expensive. A Wi-Fi 7 router? Maybe. A 2.5GbE core switch?

Just this last week several customers have ironically all asked me the exact same question. “Can we use an Ethernet switch instead of a router for our Internet EBGP peering to our ISP(s)?” While ...

Most of today's enterprise-class storage networks employ Fibre Channel technology for its high performance and rich features. But FC is still expensive to deploy, configure and manage -- well beyond ...

So our small office of 5-6 people needs a new router. We have an aging Asus thing that last saw a firmware update a couple of years ago, a couple of the antennae are looking a bit droopy after it got ...

What if you could manage your data center switches and routers the same way you manage your servers, and cut capital expense costs in the bargain? That’s the pitch for white-box networking, the move ...