A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...

What went around has come around again. As Ethernet-based technology continues its advance into access networks, network operators and equipment vendors are facing many of the same decisions that once ...

New EL326 Rack-Mount Switches Provide Layer 3 Enterprise Features, 10-Gigabit Uplinks and IPv6 Management to Expand Sixnet's EL Switch Series Sixnet, a global market leader of industrial ...

The single biggest cost for gear for a CCNP lab will be the cost of a layer 3 switch – assuming you really need one. Of the four CCNP exams, only the BCMSN exam requires a lot of LAN switch features.

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Fragment-free switching is also known as runtless switching and is a hybrid of cut-through and store-and-forward switching. Fragment-free switching was developed to solve the late-collision problem. A ...

The newly announced S3 Series of network switches from Pakedge, a Control4 brand, provides integrators with a choice of layer 2 and layer 3 solutions. Pakedge S3L-24P and updated S3-24P network ...

I am currently enrolled in the CCNA academy at my school. we are a chapter where cisco is talking about layer 2 and 3 switches. i was under the impression that all switches were layer 2? i assume that ...

I'm dealing with layer 3 switching for the first time, as part of moving into a new office. A larger organization has given us some space in their building and is giving us access to their corporate ...