The Spanning Tree Protocol, sometimes just referred to as Spanning Tree, is the Waze or MapQuest of modern Ethernet networks, directing traffic along the most efficient route based on real-time ...

For the first time, evangelists for six of the leading industrial Ethernet networking protocols sat side by side to present their protocols. Attendees at The Automation Forum asked questions and got ...

This installment in Automation World’s continuing series on key industrial network technologies clarifies what EtherNet/IP is and traces its development as a leading Ethernet-based industrial ...

Sponsored by: Texas Instruments A variety of protocols have been developed to overcome some of Ethernet's limitations in industrial applications. Ethernet has dominated wired computer-networking ...

Three decades ago, the medium that would one day earn the moniker "information superhighway" had such light traffic that there was little need for lanes, speed limits or highway patrols. The odds were ...

Except for some edge cases where extreme low-latency or high bandwidth is absolutely required, the Ethernet protocol absolutely rules networking in the datacenter, around the campus, and in our homes.

Applications need massive amounts of storage, but servers have limited disk space. Moving storage out of a server and putting it on a network makes expanding storage easy. The ATA-over-Ethernet ...

The way we move data around massive computer systems is changing really fast. Ultra Ethernet, or U-Ethernet, is the newest contender in high-speed networking, and it is built from the ground up to ...

One networking protocol that’s gotten a big push — largely from Cisco — in recent years is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). While Cisco doesn’t break out sales figures for FCoE-enabled switches, ...