Context is everything. In our next column, we’ll resume the discussion of the details behind the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture. Here, with the recent Open Networking Summit, and ...

What makes these 10 vendors of network gear the biggest power players? They’re stalwarts of LAN and WAN infrastructure, delivering network-centric security technologies and shaping the future of AI ...

[Updated 4/2/2007 - follow-up article here] For the last three years, I've been meaning to put to rest once and for all the urban legends and myths on wireless LAN security. Every time I write an ...

Leading LAN networking technology also strikes gold in MANs, WANs, and SANs. Calling ethernet a success story is the understatement of the year. Ethernet is about as ubiquitous as you can get.

Last week, when ZDNet.com Vice President Stephen Howard-Sarin asked me for some advice on setting up a network for his new home, it got me thinking about the future of home networking. Like many ...

Editor’s note: This is the 67th article in the “Real Words or Buzzwords?” series about how real words become empty words and stifle technology progress. Edge computing is used to process device data ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...