A TechRepublic reader recently e-mailed me to ask about limiting the bandwidth on a Cisco Catalyst switch port. In fact, there are a number of uses for this configuration. Let’s take a closer look. A ...

In the modern AI datacenter – really, a data galaxy at this point because AI processing needs have broken well beyond the bounds of a single datacenter or even multiple datacenters in a region in a ...

The new N9300 Smart Switch series combines Cisco Silicon One chips and AMD Pensando DPUs and fuses security directly into the network fabric by integrating Cisco Hypershield services. Cisco has ...

In assessing switch management and security, we sought to answer three questions: Did devices follow current best practices by default? Could users configure switches to follow these best practices?

At its in-house trade fair Live US 2026, Cisco unveiled new core switches, access points, routers that bring 400G campus networks, Wi-Fi 7, and more security. In addition to many agent-based AI ...

'If you think about what's on the minds of our customers, [they] are looking at AI massively transforming everything they do in the data center. The data center is a huge topic of conversation again.