Whenever you see a box with a few Ethernet ports, it’s either referred to as a router, or a switch, sometimes people will even use the word “hub”! Fortunately, it’s simpler than it may seem. A router ...

Ethernet splitter vs. switch: Which one do you need? Ethernet switches and ethernet splitters seem, at first glance, to be basically the same thing. Their names and functions are similar. However, ...

Fiber optic cables are commonly used for core network lines and connections that must span long distances, such as those used by Internet service providers. This is due to the fact that fiber optic ...

Unmanaged switches help to make setting up local networks easier, allowing you to connect multiple devices together without needing to go through a complex configuration process. The terms "Gigabit" ...

Over the past two decades, many industrial operations began building digital backbones into their production platforms. Like their counterparts in office environments, they wanted more data to enhance ...

Most people around the world prefer to use wireless internet at home due to the convenience of it all. However, there are still those who use wired internet since in many cases, it is still better ...

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MaxLinear, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXL), a leader in consumer and industrial Ethernet solutions, today announced the launch of a new family of 2.5G Ethernet switches and PHYs.

The paper describes how, with a SOPC (System on a Programmable Chip) architecture embedded with a 32-Bit NIOS-II, a Layer 2 Ethernet switch can be implemented in a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) ...

Two decades ago, the hyperscalers and cloud builders started remaking the Ethernet switch market in the datacenter in their own image, and now it looks like AI training and inference is going to morph ...