Five things you should know about configuring a Cisco IOS switch Your email has been sent Once you're ready to make the jump to a more sophisticated switch, what do you need to know? Let's answer some ...

One way to boost network security is to use Cisco's Port Security feature to lock down switch ports. Learn the basics of port security, and find out how to configure this feature. A growing challenge ...

Cisco Systems is forging ahead with LAN switches designed to support faster Wi-Fi access points even while an ethernet standard for the technology they use is still taking shape. The switches have ...

In QoS part 3 we gathered the information required to mark DSCP values for unmarked traffic flows for a TMUBPS (Totally Made Up but Plausible Scenario). In this ...

A Cisco switch configured as an access layer port with a voice vlan is actually an 802.1Q trunk that will only allow traffic tagged on the voice vlan. The last exception is very seldom used, but does ...

Thanks to AMD's Data Processing Unit, two new Cisco switches offer security functions in the data center that would otherwise be performed by a firewall. At its in-house trade fair Cisco Live EMEA, ...