The device under test for this project was the Cisco Nexus 9516 data center core switch/router, a 16-slot chassis equipped with 1,024 50-gigabit Ethernet interfaces and two supervisor modules. Cisco ...

We asked Force10 to supply a top-of-rack data center switch with at least 24 10G Ethernet ports to allow direct comparison of results with Network World’s January 2010 test of similarly equipped ...

In many data centers, latency and jitter are the most important metrics. Even the small amounts of delay (latency) or delay variation (jitter) introduced by a switch can have a profound impact on ...

Cisco’s FabricPath data center Ethernet technology is designed to combine traditional, Spanning Tree-based Ethernet with a next-generation architecture that uses a link-state protocol to allow for ...

To select appropriate network design solutions, you need to understand protocol and application behavior in addition to traffic flows and load. For example, to select appropriate LAN topologies, you ...

After a bit of a struggle, we’ve managed to implement IPTV. We encountered the issue of excessive broadcasting, until we configured our switches differently. I understand this is a common problem but ...