I know pretty much how smaller switches work but my question mainly has to do with how switches work in a campus environment. <P>At my university the network services people told me that they use a ...

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

A remote Ethernet device needs two things: power and Ethernet. You might think that this also means two cables, a beefy one to carry the current needed to run the thing, and thin little twisted pairs ...

Many people have gadgets in their homes that connect to the internet, like cameras or doorbells. Some of these devices need both power and a network connection. Power Over Ethernet, or PoE, is a way ...

When you use your computer on your home or office network, there's a lot happening in the background. To connect to another device on your network and use the internet, you're using two pieces of ...