COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — NextHop Technologies Inc. is adding Layer 2 switching software to its popular GateD Next Generation Carrier 2.0 routing software suite. The move has applications in both ...

I had a great time meeting with a variety of customers at Cisco Live in Orlando back in June. We covered a lot of different topics around data center security. One specific item that came up more than ...

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Two high-profile specifications winding their way through the IETF promise to boost data center switching and service provider routing, but advances from Cisco and Juniper Networks raise questions ...

A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...