With Wireless LANs becoming mainstream, organizations want to tightly integrate Wireless LANs with wired LANs. Network managers are reluctant or unwilling to deploy Wireless LANs unless those LANs ...

Access-control lists, originally designed for routers to deny or admit packets entering a network from a WAN, have drawbacks in controlling a diverse group of users accessing LANs. ACLs have no ...

There’s a story in this week’s Network World that caught my eye – it goes to the heart of the hype around adding security features to LAN equipment. The story relates the results of a survey by ...

The LAN has emerged as a security risk, subject to insider misuse as well as external attacks. Threats can arise from rogue hosts on wireless, guests plugging into open ports in a conference room, ...

The freedom of wireless networking is enticing, but the accompanying risks are daunting. If you're running a wireless LAN on the 802.11 standards, you may think your organization is secure. Think ...

This is the second article in our spotlight on the evolution of the SGi/Gi-LAN, a core element in today’s mobile networks. Faced with an explosion of mobile devices and a shift in traffic patterns ...

Wireless networking is terrific. I have the freedom to work on the Internet anywhere around my office or even outside on my porch. I do not worry about drilling holes in my walls or fishing wires.

Celona Inc., a California-based private 5G network provider, today announced two new capabilities to its enterprise clients and partner roster. Puneet Shetty, Celona’s vice president of product ...

In my recently published “Deciphering wiring” post, I discussed (among other things) the multiple spans of Ethernet cable that shuttle LAN packets between various areas of the house and the downstairs ...

Santa Clara, Calif. – Oct. 24, 2023 – Versa Networks, a leader in AI/ML-powered Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), today announced Versa Secure SD-LAN – the ...