While most modern Ethernet cables you buy won't present an issue, some older Ethernet cables can actually throttle your ...

There was a time, before I started covering broadband for CNET, I didn't think much about how the internet actually worked. Like most people, I only noticed it when my connection went down. Once I ...

The way we move data around massive computer systems is changing really fast. Ultra Ethernet, or U-Ethernet, is the newest contender in high-speed networking, and it is built from the ground up to ...

We spend so much time online that how we connect to the internet has become almost as important as the devices we use. Most people never give it a second thought. They connect their computer to Wi-Fi, ...

Ethernet is ubiquitous, fast, and simple. You only need two diffpairs (four wires) to establish a 100Mbit link, the hardware is everywhere, you can do Ethernet over long distances easily, and tons of ...

Sometimes the simplest questions are the best. On our last Network World/Tolly State of the LAN tour, a network manager in attendance said the following (and I paraphrase): “OK. Ethernet is great.

After discovering that a single Cat5 cable was bottlenecking some devices on my network to 90 Mbps while the rest of my setup ran at gigabit speeds, I went deep into learning what actually makes one ...

Thirty years ago this month, Bob Metcalfe first proposed the idea of Ethernet at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Ethernet’s acceptance as a fundamental standard seems almost foreordained today ...

Traditional approaches to data center networking cannot satisfy the scale, bandwidth, latency and cost points required for evolving data center software architectures. Fibre Channel and InfiniBand ...