The very good short term reason is this: I can get a dual port Intel 10Gb NIC for about $600, that only supports direct attach twinax cabling. At today's prices that is a couple thousand dollars (US) ...

We are having a storage area network installed in a few days. The vendor who is installing the equipment has requested that we configure the switch being used for what they are calling link ...

Networking gurus, I am in search of a 48 port switch that will allow me set up link aggregation. I have 10 workstations and one server, each with 2 NICs. Each of the 2 NICs form a bonded ...