Extreme Networks is buying the wireless local area networking business from Zebra Technologies in a cash deal valued at $55 million. Extreme CEO Ed Meyercord said the deal will bolster his company's ...

As more applications come onto the local area network (LAN), it is time to look into simple and immediate ways to expand the network’s ability to take on heavier traffic. The argument is simple: More ...

As regular readers may recall, Comcast is my broadband Internet (WAN) service provider. And regular readers may also recall that MoCA is one of the LAN technologies in current use in my home ...

Context is everything. In our next column, we’ll resume the discussion of the details behind the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. Here, with the recent Open Networking Summit, and ...

LAN technology recently passed a milestone — it has been around for 30 years, some of them tumultuous. But while the LAN seems ubiquitous now, there are those who think its future may be more troubled ...

My brother is setting up a LAN gaming center with his partner, and they've called on me to setup the network. Since most(all) of my experience is with 'regular' networks, I thought I'd bounce the idea ...

Cisco today announced two new products to improve service assurance in the wide area network (WAN). It rolled out SD-WAN vAnalytics and Meraki Insight. And it says the products use its intent-based ...

Ethernet, the wired networking technology that originated at Xerox PARC over 40 years ago, has always been remarkably solid. In much the same way that WiFi has ruled wireless networking since its ...

In about a month, we will publish Jim’s report entitled “The 2010 Cloud Networking Report”. That report will talk about the WAN, LAN and management challenges associated with supporting cloud ...

Visio, Microsoft's powerful diagramming tool, and networking are like chocolate and peanut butter. At first they seem like an unlikely blend, but when you mix them together you get something arguably ...

Editor’s note: This is the 67th article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series about how real words become empty words and stifle technology progress. Edge computing is used to process device data ...