Announced last year, the QNAP QSW-308-1C is a 3-port 10G SFP+ and 8-port Gigabit Unmanaged Switch. This little switch is an entry-level way for small businesses and even homes to add high-speed networking. The switch supports up to five speeds (10G / 5G / 2.5G / 1G / 100M). As we stated in our How

Today, SonicWall announced a massive slate of hardware and software updates. SonicWall announced plans to release several new firewall appliances. The software updates are even more extensive and include several new software-defined firewall products. SonicWall was founded in 1991. The current CEO, Bill Conner, has been in that position since November 2016. SonicWall was a

Today NETGEAR announced its new WiFi 6 access point in the NETGEAR WAX610. The company also announced a waterproof outdoor version, the NETGEAR WAX610Y. The new AP is aimed at SMB customers that are ready to leverage the benefits of WiFi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) including faster speeds, more concurrent device support, improved range amongst other

This week, Cisco has made two big announcements concerning the hybrid data center solutions, the next generation of Cisco’s Cloud Scale ASIC, and a new 400G line card for their Nexus 9500 modular chassis. With these two products, Cisco is making improvements in the capacity and manageability of their Nexus switching platforms and aims to

In response to the effects of the widespread COVID-19 pandemic, many companies have been doing what they can to can to help out their customers, both large and small, including offering free services. Synology is one of those companies, as they’ve made VPN Plus licenses free since April 6, 2020, and will continue to do

Today at GTC in Santa Clara, NVIDIA announced the first secure SmartNIC that is optimized for 25G, the NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNIC. Designed to provide advanced network offloads to accelerate cloud and enterprise workloads, the new SmartNIC is highly secure and able to hit 25/50Gb/s speeds.

Today NVIDA announced its intent to acquire Cumulus Networks. NVIDIA isn’t exactly on an acquisition frenzy, but they did recently acquire Mellanox as well. While the Mellanox deal went for just shy of $7 billion, there doesn’t seem to be a word yet on the price tag of Cumulus.

Today, Cumulus Networks released the latest version of NetQ, 3.0. NetQ is a realtime network monitoring and analytics tool. JR Rivers and Nolan Leake founded Cumulus Networks in 2010. NetQ is one of their two main products. The other is an open-source Linux (Debian based) operating system for network switches.

Cisco and Google made a joint announcement. They are hoping to release a turnkey networking solution that currently has the very long name of: Cisco SD-WAN (Software Defined-Wide Area Network) Cloud Hub with Google Cloud. Google is hopeful they’ll be able to release it sometime in the first half of 2021. With a target date