In the home or office, the Ethernet switch functions as a central station connecting computers, printers and every other wired device to each other. The switch is also wired to the router and modem to ...

Standing in the networking aisle of an electronics retail store, anybody could mistakenly pick up a router instead of an Ethernet switch or vice versa. The product packages as well as the devices ...

WAYNE, N.J. — In keeping with its credo to reduce costs in enterprise networking designs, Adtran will release a set of Ethernet boxes this week that collapse switching, routing, firewall, and VPN ...

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

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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) ...

With industrial Ethernet fast becoming the network of choice to replace the myriad fieldbuses in both the discrete manufacturing and process industries, your choice of products that form your control ...

Setting up a network for your small business can be tricky work -- there are a lot of parts involved, and every computer on the network has to have the correct equipment in order to transfer files and ...

One of the biggest growth technologies in the industrial market is Ethernet based networking. Most industrial Ethernet standards use the IEEE 802.3 standard Ethernet protocol giving them the ability ...

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 ...

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When discussing Ethernet data, the terms frame and packet are often used interchangeably. Frames and packets are the electronic containers that carry our data from point-to-point by navigating LANs ...