Hi everyone<BR><BR>Quick one really. I'm setting up a NAS box which will be directly connected via gigabit to a VMWare ESXi host machine. The VMs will be accessing the storage from that NAS box using ...

Having a fast-as-blazes Power Mac or Xserve operating as your file server is one part of the equation, but what happens when your server’s network interface is a performance bottleneck? Adding a ...

It may be hard to believe, but 1G bit/sec is just not enough bandwidth for many network connections between LAN switches and from switches to high-demand network servers. Along with the ...

In Network World’s first hands-on assessment of the new 10G Ethernet switches, we put boxes from five major vendors through a comprehensive set of performance tests – both 1 and 10 Gigabit flavors of ...

“Today's businesses and educational organizations face ever-increasing needs to expand bandwidth, performance, switching capacity, overall reliability, and energy savings,” said Steven Olen, director ...

At least until the standards are done for 40G and 100G Ethernet, link aggregation will remain the preferred high-speed uplink method. Link aggregation, described in IEEE standard 802.3ad, binds ...

Small Tree Communications today announced the availability of a free 30-day trial version of its IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation product for Mac OS X, which was referenced by Apple during the Xserve ...

Link Aggregation and Controller Protocol (LACP) With the introduction of the full-duplex specification, Ethernet is now used to support higher bandwidth applications than could previously be deployed ...

The use of cabling within electronic systems is widespread. For many applications, cable interconnect has provided a standardized way to connect two points within a system or between systems. Cable ...