5 devices you should always have plugged into ethernet ports

Your Ethernet ports provide you with access to fast Internet with a stable connection, and that's an essential connection for these five devices.

I set up a Firawalla Orange router at home, and it's a bigger security upgrade than expected

The Firewalla Orange makes network monitoring and security accessible for home setups, small businesses, and more.

The new network operating model: Replace hardware, or replace assumptions?

Modernize your network to align strategy with operations; aging hardware is a strategic risk.
Automation World

Critical Hardware and Software Aspects in the Merger of IT and OT Networks

Learn how OT networks differ from traditional IT networks. Get recommendations to help determine the appropriate hardware for your industrial network. Find out which types of software are essential ...
Bleeping Computer

See who's on your network: Best network discovery tools to identify devices

Network discovery tools help admins find devices, make maps of the network, keep track of devices, control who can use them, and manage the network better. If you don't know what devices are on your ...
Network World

Kernel space: Multiqueue networking

One of the useful features in new networking hardware is extra transmit queues, to give a latency advantage to outgoing audio and video packets. A new kernel feature lets device driver writers use ...
Network World

Hardware, software or virtual appliance?

Network and systems management tools typically come as software applications or hardware devices. But a new trend toward virtual appliances combines the ease of hardware installation with the ...