Cisco Systems is forging ahead with LAN switches designed to support faster Wi-Fi access points even while an ethernet standard for the technology they use is still taking shape. The switches have ...

One way to boost network security is to use Cisco’s Port Security feature to lock down switch ports. Learn the basics of port security, and find out how to configure this feature. A growing challenge ...

We're running version 14 of Whatsupgold, and we've a whole campus full of Cisco switches we want monitored. So far everything works great, except that when someone plugs a computer into a wall jack, ...

Once you’re ready to make the jump to a more sophisticated switch, what do you need to know? Let’s answer some of the most frequently asked questions and explore the basic configuration of Cisco IOS ...

What would cause a high number of "Deferred" packets on a Cisco Switch port. The port is set to 100 / half. Nothing else special - the port is a member of a vlan, and has spanning-tree portfast. I ...

Buy less equipment, use less power: That’s a proposition network managers can get behind, and it’s what Cisco promises with the new power management features in its Catalyst 3750-X stackable access ...

As our network continues to grow, we are trying have standards as to reserving certain port numbers for access points, certain ones for printers, etc. Another challenge is to prevent ports from being ...

The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. Well, they actually are, but it is because the hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world have been ...