When speeds drop, we assume the switch is overheating, or a port has gone bad, or perhaps the packet buffer is overflowing.

If you’ve been working with networks as long as I have, you probably remember the days when 10-Mbps Ethernet seemed fast. And when 100-Mbps "Fast" Ethernet debuted--Wow! Just when it seemed as if ...

Only a few years ago, the speed race in network connectivity was a battle between Ethernet's 10mbps transmission rate and Token-Ring's 16mbps. Even though the difference between the two was relatively ...

For network managers who’ve outfitted their servers with Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards in recent years, the results definitely have been of the “glass half-full” variety. While Gigabit ...

Although it probably feels like forever to many of us since Category 5 Ethernet cabling became prevalent, now that 2.5 and even 5 Gbit Ethernet has trickled into the mainstream, a pertinent question ...

After discovering that a single Cat5 cable was bottlenecking some devices on my network to 90 Mbps while the rest of my setup ran at gigabit speeds, I went deep into learning what actually makes one ...

IFS EtherNav D7800 Series is Specifically Designed for Gigabit Networks to Handle High-Bandwidth Applications Las Vegas, NV. April 5, 2006, —IFS Communications Products Unit of GE Security has ...

Gigabit Ethernet, a transmission technology based on the Ethernet frame format and protocol used in local area networks (LANs), provides a data rate of 1 billion bits per second (one gigabit). Gigabit ...

Truth be known, CPUs stopped being a bottleneck to your computing experience ten years ago. And over the ensuing decade, computer storage mechanisms have grown dramatically faster. SATA 6Gbps SSDs, ...

Enclosure manufacturer Akitio has started to ship the Thunder3 10G Network Adapter, an accessory for an iMac or MacBook Pro offering connectivity to an ethernet network at speeds of up to 10 gigabits ...

Silicon Graphics Inc. recently released a 10 Gigabit Ethernet option for its line of Linux/Unix-based servers, workstations and storage appliances. The PCI-X-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet network ...