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 ...

It’s time to wrap up (hoorah!) this spring’s foray into the question of what to put in your CCNA lab. I hope that you’ve found the series useful. Today, I’ll touch on a few final points with switches, ...

Discover how to build a low-power, high-performance home lab that’s energy-efficient, cost-effective, and secure without ...

After working through a longish discussion about Cisco routers for your CCNA lab, it will be nice to discuss switches. Thankfully, the choice of switches is a lot easier to figure out than the choice ...

Upgrading to a managed switch for my home unlocked increased control, VLAN support, link aggregation, and other advanced features.

Central to the network engineering degree is a series of classes that take place in the network engineering lab. We provide students hands-on assignments building, testing, and operating ...

The best minds in networking spent the better part of two decades wrenching the control planes of switches and routers out of network devices and putting them into external controllers. We called this ...