Setting up a wireless network can be a great way to increase your employees' productivity by giving them the freedom to work anywhere in the facility. However, a wireless network also can be a source ...

Industrial networks increasingly incorporate switching gear to avoid bottlenecks that can bog down critical operations. Networks are starting to become a critical part of many industrial installations ...

This week, we’ll take at look at the signaling system used by the PSTN as we begin to highlight some of the security concerns about networks moving toward a converged infrastructure. Today, we’ll ...

The process of troubleshooting your network involves a methodology that starts with cabling and works through the OSI model to the application layer. The network devices have a network cable that ...

Ethernet is becoming ubiquitous on factory floors. Expectations are, for example, that Ethernet nodes in the process industries will nearly double over the next few years. The market research firm IMS ...

In-vehicle networking is creating a quiet revolution in automotive technology—over the past two decades it has eliminated the unwieldy wiring harnesses once used for control circuits, and increased ...

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s, or DISA’s, one year-old Fourth Estate Network Optimization Program is progressing. The multiyear, comprehensive, information technology advancement effort, ...

Ethernet inexpensive; included on most new PCs; hundreds of hardware makers requires cabling; larger networks need hubs and switches 91m (300 feet) per segment 100 / 60Mbps (for 100Mbps network) Wi-Fi ...