When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect to another device on your network and use the internet, you're using two pieces of ...

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

A network switch is a small hardware device that links multiple computers together within one local area network, wide area network and different network topology. Network switches work at Data Link ...

The best network switch will be a necessity for anyone looking to add more wired connections and gain greater network speeds. One of the biggest issues we've found with even the best routers and best ...

Storage is bits at rest and networking is bits in motion. Now there’s someting in the middle. With the evolution of wide area file systems (WAFS) the boundary between storage and networking continues ...

There’s no such thing as a dedicated iSCSI switch because iSCSI storage traffic runs on Ethernet networks. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t have a discussion about iSCSI switches as there are ...

Most modern PCs come with a NIC and WNIC built in, providing the option of either connection method. However, mobile devices such as tablets, smartphones and many embedded devices feature only a WNIC, ...

The Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley recently added a piece of TACC’s history into their permanent historical collection — sealing its place as a milestone in computing. We’re always ...