I'm working for a private company with approx. 100 employees. We're planning for a complete infrastructure overhaul in our HQ to be done within this calendar year, starting from network infrastructure ...

(Compare switch redundancy features in the Network World’s Switch Buyer’s Guide.) This approach works, but has multiple downsides. Chief among them is the “active-passive” model used by most ...

Businesses today thrive on the constant availability of their IT infrastructure. Any disruption in network connectivity can grind productivity to a halt, interrupt customer or partner interactions, ...

Ethernet-based OT (operations technology) networks are commonplace today, but switch selection and network topology design continue to be an afterthought in many cases. In the past, TCP/IP-based ...

I've been looking at ways to implement redundancy at the edge of a small business network (dual ISPs, dual firewalls). One particular setup has 2 ISPs followed by 2 switches that branch off into 2 ...