Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

Modern networks are critical for any enterprise. Networks deliver business applications, multimedia messages and key data to end users around the world. A fundamental element that networks have in ...

A network switch is a small hardware device that links multiple computers together within one local area network, wide area network and different network topology. Network switches work at Data Link ...

Broadcom launches Wi-Fi 8 chipsets for access points and switches while the speed gains everyone expected may not arrive soon ...

Wireless access is quickly becoming essential in enterprise networks. With the arrival of 802.11n and its capacity of hundreds of megabits per access point, the value of wireless access has increased ...

So you’ve seen the light and turned your sluggish PC into a productivity powerhouse with better, faster gear. That’s a great first step. But putting together a state-of-the-art PC workstation without ...

The need for unified networks serving artificial intelligence (AI) training and inference is reaching an unprecedented scale. Broadcom’s answer: The Tomahawk 6 switch delivers 102.4 Tbs of switching ...

“[Cisco] is a little bit late to the party [and] we’re not stopping with the switches [and] we’re continuing to lap the field with integration to the full-stack solution as well, so we welcome the ...