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  Ethernet filters out porn, plus 9 other facts (?) we learned from Bob Metcalfe's Reddit Q&A

  Bob Metcalfe, who 40 years ago invented Ethernet along with David Boggs, spent two hours this week regaling Reddit users with his thoughts on everything from software-defined networking to Internet porn.

  By Bob Brown | 23 May, 2013 12:36

  Tags: reddit, University of Texas at Austin, 3Com, EE, 3C, Networking, Ethernet Switch, LAN, LAN & WAN

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  10 things you may not know about Ethernet

  Ethernet's value to networking and IT is well established over the past 40 years. But did you know that "Ethernet" refers to two slightly different ways of sending information between endpoints on a LAN? That and some other perhaps lesser known facts about this 40-year-old technology are reviewed here:

  By Jim Duffy | 20 May, 2013 13:50

  Tags: University of Hawaii, Xerox, Networking, Ethernet Switch, LAN, intel, LAN & WAN

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  What's next for Ethernet?

  Internet traffic will quadruple in five years and the number of mobile Internet connections will exceed the world's population by 2017, according to Cisco research.

  By Jim Duffy | 20 May, 2013 13:49

  Tags: itu, EE, Networking, Ethernet Switch, LAN, internet, LAN & WAN

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  Netgear to target mid-market with future SDN capability

  While much of the hype for software-defined networking is focused on large-scale data center deployments, some companies are taking a different angle.

  By Jon Gold | 09 May, 2013 14:51

  Tags: Networking, LAN, netgear, WAN

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  Open Networking Foundation director details SDN directions, OpenDaylight impact

  The third annual Open Networking Summit, an SDN conference organized by the Open Networking Foundation, convened this week just after ONF members Cisco and IBM unveiled a separate effort to define an open source SDN framework. Unlike the user-driven ONF, OpenDaylight is a vendor-driven project to cultivate a system of SDN applications, but it also raised suspicion of the group's real intent: Is it designed to stall SDN's momentum and the threat, real or perceived, it could pose to incumbent hardware vendors? ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt discussed some of these topics with Network World Managing Editor Jim Duffy at the Santa Clara, Calif., conference.

  By Jim Duffy | 18 April, 2013 15:50

  Tags: IBM, Networking, Open Networking Summit, cisco, OpenDaylight, LAN, IT management, LAN & WAN, OpenFlow, Open Networking Foundation, SDN

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  Mobile survival guide: Top tips for staying connected

  Picture this: You're sitting down

  By Patrick Miller | 14 January, 2011 01:11

  Tags: mobile broadband, dropbox, Google, Networking, USB, LAN, WAN

• Networking gets faster, more media-savvy

  Home is where the network is: That's the mantra of networking vendors at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 in Las Vegas this week.

  By Yardena Arar | 08 January, 2011 13:19

  Tags: wireless technology, CES, Networking, wireless, netgear, Network management, LAN, logitech, intel, management, Networking & Wireless, bluetooth

Whitepapers about LAN

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  In Control at Layer 2: A Tectonic Shift in Network Security

  Network hacking and corporate espionage are on the rise and set to intensify. Information security risks remain commonplace, and most organisations need to increase vigilance. This paper has analyses the realistic threats to fibre optic Ethernet networks – both at the LAN and WAN level. Read now.

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  The Network Impact of 802.11n