NETGEAR adds lifetime warranty for biz-class products
NETGEAR today announced that its ProSafe line of business class ...
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The Tao of Multimedia Production Networking – Part 1
Designing a network for the demands of film production can teach valuable lessons, grasshopper. David Hawkins shows us the way.
How To: Wake on LAN / Wake on WAN
Waking your PC up over the Internet can come in handy. Doug Reid shows you how.
Belkin enters SMB Network Monitoring Biz
Belkin today announced its entry into the network monitoring market with a product targeting SMB networks.
Belkin's Pulse is a network monitoring system built on Jumpnode Systems’ appliance-enabled software (AeS) service platform that combines a plug-and-play appliance with a hosted software solution.
Sonicwall SSL-VPN-200 Review: SSL for SMBs
Sonicwall's SSL gateway gets along with browsers besides IE, and supports Vista. But it needs work on evening out throughput.
D-Link adds wireless management to 10/100 smart switch
D-Link today announced that it will soon add wireless management features to its DES-1228P 24-Port 10/100 smart switch with PoE. The new features will support the upcoming DWL-3140AP, a small, "smoke detector-sized" access point.
Centralized AP management features will include WEP, WPA and WPA2 security, configuration templates, quick discovery of APs, AP mapping utility, full-time AP status controls, AP load balancing and the ability to maintain all AP traffic history and generate reports with statistical diagrams.
$250 Gigabit Smart Switch Roundup
If you're going to upgrade your LAN to gigabit, why not step up to the features that a "smart" switch offers? Craig Ellison digs into four examples of the current state of the Level 2 switch art.
Linksys RVS4000: Great features but slow downloads
The RVS4000 has just about every routing feature you could want. But it might put a crimp in your download speed.
SMC to ship HomePlug AV adapter
SMC Networks today announced the addition of a HomePlug AV ...
NETGEAR adds 24-Port smart PoE switch
NETGEAR today announced the ProSafe 24 Port 10/100 Smart Switch ...
Phoneline Networking now international standard
The HomePNA Alliance today announced that the International Telecommunication Union ...
Linksys intros small biz managed switches, RAID BYOD NASes
Linksys today announced six new "fully managed" Layer-2 switches and its first line of RAID capable network attached storage solutions with both lines aimed at small business users.
The new switches include two stackable 24 10/100 + 4 gigabit port, two stackable 24 10/100/1000 + 4 SFP port and standalone 24 10/100 + 4 gigabit and 48 10/100 + 4 gigabit models. Four out of the six products include PoE ports and all feature a web management interface as well as SNMP, RMON and Telnet management options.
The new NASes represent the company's first foray into RAID networked storage. Both of the two models support up to four drives and feature redundant power supplies. They come either without drives or configured with 1 TB of RAID 5 storage and support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1 + Spare, RAID 5, RAID 5 + Spare, RAID 10, and JBOD configurations.