Cisco this week is unveiling two new configurations of its recently-launched Nexus 9000 switches, a new 40G Nexus switch. In addition, Cisco is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its UCS server.

Once you’re ready to make the jump to a more sophisticated switch, what do you need to know? Let’s answer some of the most frequently asked questions and explore the basic configuration of Cisco IOS ...

Thanks to AMD's Data Processing Unit, two new Cisco switches offer security functions in the data center that would otherwise be performed by a firewall. At its in-house trade fair Cisco Live EMEA, ...

Is Cisco gear high-priced but worth the investment because of quality support and advanced features -- or just plain high-priced? Cisco Systems Inc. is the dominant LAN switch vendor, both in the ...

In the modern AI datacenter – really, a data galaxy at this point because AI processing needs have broken well beyond the bounds of a single datacenter or even multiple datacenters in a region in a ...

Cisco is launching a whole series of innovations in the network environment. These include new smart switches from the Catalyst 9000 series specifically for campus environments. It was only at the ...

When building a lab to use to practice for CCNA or CCNP, you need Cisco switches. Part of the decision must be how many switches you can afford. And of course you’ll want to know whether adding that ...

There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. The first and more obvious way to create a programmable switch is to add ...

David Davis describes the fundamentals of router security through a list of his top five best practices. He has also hand-picked resources that will give you further details on properly securing your ...