Stacking network switches can prove useful when building a local area network (LAN) at home or in the office. If you have many devices to connect, grouping network switches can allow them to share the ...

How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...

Arista Networks is adding new features to its campus networking portfolio to help enterprise customers more easily group and manage switches. The new features – Switch Aggregation Group (SWAG) and ...

i have 2 cisco smb sg500-52 switches, and just bought the cisco twinax cables to stack the devices. one of the devices is not connected at all, and the other has several devices connected to it. i ...

Historically, stacking has been the only option for achieving the goal of aggregated management across a group of switches. However, existing stacking solutions rely on proprietary cables and ...

With the introduction of the Switch Aggregation Group (SWAG) function in the standardized switch operating system Arista EOS and the CloudVision Leaf Spine Stack (LSS), Arista aims to significantly ...

Hot on the heels of Hewlett-Packard announcing its OpenSwitch open source switch operating system, Big Switch Networks, a provider of software-defined networking tools based on the OpenFlow protocol, ...