With Wireless LANs becoming mainstream, organizations want to tightly integrate Wireless LANs with wired LANs. Network managers are reluctant or unwilling to deploy Wireless LANs unless those LANs ...

The LAN has emerged as a security risk, subject to insider misuse as well as external attacks. Threats can arise from rogue hosts on wireless, guests plugging into open ports in a conference room, ...

I received a letter from one of my readers named Peter. Peter asks some good questions about wireless LAN security and wonders if I can answer some of his questions. Since these were all common ...

This is the second article in our spotlight on the evolution of the SGi/Gi-LAN, a core element in today’s mobile networks. Faced with an explosion of mobile devices and a shift in traffic patterns ...

Most enterprise LAN switch vendors such as Alcatel, Allied Telesyn, Avaya, 3Com, Cisco, Dell, Enterasys, Extreme, Foundry, HP and Nortel include intelligent features such as Layer 3 and 4 access ...

The LAN edge presents a broad and potentially vulnerable target for cyber criminals, and many LAN solutions lack built-in security, so they end up being secured with add-on solutions that add cost and ...

Celona Inc., a California-based private 5G network provider, today announced two new capabilities to its enterprise clients and partner roster. Puneet Shetty, Celona’s vice president of product ...

In my recently published “Deciphering wiring” post, I discussed (among other things) the multiple spans of Ethernet cable that shuttle LAN packets between various areas of the house and the downstairs ...

The Local Area Network (LAN) we know today starts simply, with a switch connecting a computer to the network. But that inevitably gets more complex as you add routers and the occasional firewall to ...