How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...

If anyone has purused the Networking forum you would have seen that we are in the middle of a massive change in our network with the introduction of the Trusted Internet Connection. This effort has ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

As more and more servers are virtualized, connections between them are increasingly handled by virtual switches running on the same servers, begging the question, does the top of rack data center ...

Wiring your home for multimedia? Dreaming about it? Even if you’re using an electrician to pull the CAT 5e cable, it’s worth getting involved in the design of the termination — the rack. The rack is ...

Cisco this week rolled out a bevy of data center products ranging from servers to switches to SANs, all designed to further broaden the company’s reach beyond networking and into IT infrastructure.