I recently got a second-hand switch, a Netgear JGS516, but its previous owner can't find the "ears" to mount it inside a rack. I just spent an hour searching around, and it's surprisingly difficult to ...

Over the last year or so we have shown you pieces of networking hardware that normally reside in the realm of the enterprise network; items like 24 port rack mounted switches, smart switches and of ...

Back before HDTVs, set-top boxes, consoles and Blu-ray players sprouted ethernet ports, the only people who needed a network hook-up near their AV kit were those with media streamers. Now one cable ...

The Netgear ProSafe XS708E is an unmanaged 10GbE switch, with eight auto-sensing, auto-negotiating 10GbE RJ45 ports and a single SFP+ combo port for fibre connections. That means that when the SFP+ ...

Ever since the Taiwanese NAS manufactures included 10GbE capabilities to their products, I've been in the 10GbE network market. Until now your options were limited to enterprise, expensive paired with ...

Higher-end, so-called "smart switches" do a lot more than connect network segments. Vendors are producing switches that add a layer of security in a data center, are fault-tolerant and can efficiently ...