Cisco Systems maintained its throne as the best-selling switch brand in 2013, according to NPD, with the San Jose, Calif-based networking giant accounting for 32.7 percent of the total units shipped.

The second best-selling switch in the market was Netgear's ProSAFE FS105 5-Port Fast Ethernet desktop switch. The San Jose, Calif.-based network gear maker captured 27.7 unit share up from 24.9 ...

Should you consider investing in a network switch? Here’s why it might help optimize your home internet connection and bring ...

Most Mesh Routers Have One or Two Ethernet Ports . Like many people, I've made the jump to a mesh network in my home. Unlike ...

Stacking network switches can prove useful when building a local area network (LAN) at home or in the office. If you have many devices to connect, grouping network switches can allow them to share ...

A network switch adds more ports to your router. It's useful if you have a lot of wired devices in one place, or if you want to wire your home for Ethernet.

Dell Computer is getting into the networking business. The PC maker said on Wednesday that it would begin selling network switches to small and medium-sized businesses in its third fiscal quarter ...

From durability and security to optimized traffic flows and plug-and-play simplicity, managed industrial Ethernet switches are the choice for manufacturers serious about an Industry 4.0 upgrade. The ...

Ethernet switches reduce the “collision domain” and have assumed more popularity over hubs and therefore, there are few manufacturers of hubs today. Ethernet switches maintain a table of ...

Crehan Research estimates that in 2012 the total cloud segment accounted for about 4 million data center Ethernet switch ports — including OEM switch brands such as Arista, Cisco, Dell, IBM, and ...

The ET-5MS-OEM-2 board is a 5-port managed Ethernet switch that original equipment manufacturers can use to create their own Ethernet switch, by adding packaging, a power supply and connectors. Or ...

Without getting bogged down in too much detail, a network switch is a box that you connect to your router. On that box are a range of ethernet ports. And you can plug more things into those ...