The routing vs. switching wars of the mid-1990s pitted routing kingpin Cisco against virtually every other competitor in the enterprise space: Bay Networks, 3Com, and Cabletron, which all promoted ...

Understanding current trends in enterprise network design, including best practices for building user, data center and wide area networks (WANs); the top protocols currently used for routing and ...

According to a report by GreyB, upon examining the landscape of active patent families within routing and switching technology, it’s clear that Cisco and Huawei are at the forefront ...

Layer 3 Switching Many switch companies have added IP routing to their switches, but they’re using the term Layer 3 switching instead of the more traditional routing. Generally, this term implies that ...

With the dividing line between switching and routing blurring among the hyperscalers and cloud builders, it is no wonder to us that switching is growing as Ethernet switch ASICs get more and more ...

networking 232601426 Carrier Routing, Switching Had Bang-Up 2011: Researcher Networking Carrier Routing, Switching Had Bang-Up 2011: Researcher By Chad Berndtson February 24, 2012, 02:10 PM EST ...

This is just one set of vectors driving the industry towards smashing the appliance model in switching and routing and adopted a more disaggregated networking model. The other vectors that are part of ...

Finally, Part C of Figure 12-1 shows how the routing and switching functions can be combined into one device: a multilayer switch. No external router is needed. Figure 12-1 ...