Here's how a network switch might improve your home internet connection.

Switches connect network segments, providing full-duplex communication, valuable network performance data and efficient use of network bandwidth.

Verizon Communications announced a deal with Nortel Networks on Tuesday, the latest carrier moving to add packet-switching technology to its voice network. Other carriers are also slowly moving ...

Several readers are reporting repeated system freezes in Mac OS X when switching network locations. Locations are sets of network preferences that can be toggled on the fly, frequently used by ...

A network switch adds more ports to your router. It's useful if you have a lot of wired devices in one place, or if you want to wire your home for Ethernet.

In contrast, many other vendors of Linux-based networking devices extensively rewrite routing and switching functions, and make these available through proprietary CLIs or APIs.

Much is being made of Facebook's Open Compute Project's announcement that they were soliciting input for an open source top-of-rack switch. Soliciting input from the industry and getting sign-off ...