So, regardless of which devices are in your smart home, and whether they're inherently smart or controlled by smart plugs and other gadgets, they all need reliable communication protocols to work.

In this article I explain how the Linux kernel manages multicast traffic and how it is possible to interact with it by simply patching some kernel code. Although this is a rather specific topic, it ...

Independent spanning trees, often realised as completely independent spanning trees (CISTs), form a foundational concept in network design and routing. They consist of multiple spanning trees ...

Cisco’s FabricPath data center Ethernet technology is designed to combine traditional, Spanning Tree-based Ethernet with a next-generation architecture that uses a link-state protocol to allow for ...

Cisco has three words for network architects looking to grow their data centers: Faster. Flatter. Simpler. The vendor says its FabricPath technology embodies all three qualities by making far better ...

There is a catch: The latest 1/10-gigabit Ethernet line cards for the Cisco Nexus 7000 are the first, and so far only, products to enable FabricPath. That’s likely to change as Cisco expands ...