As data center managers consolidate and virtualize their servers, the next order of business becomes moving all that traffic. Enter top-of-rack data center switches that offer speed, scalability, ...

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 ...

Integrating intelligent direct-memory access (DMA) engines with PCI Express (PCIe) switches can enable embedded systems and other complex designs with low-latency, high-performance communication ...

Blueprint topics covered in this chapter: This chapter covers the following subtopics from the Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching written exam blueprint. Refer to the full blueprint in Table I-1 in the ...

1. Need industrial IT strategy. With the rapid growth of industrial Ethernet devices, the lack of an industrial IT strategy at many companies is becoming a real problem. It's not uncommon to have ...

In OSPF, with Broadcast Multiaccess Topologies (i.e. Ethernet), the Multicast IP addresses are mapped to MAC-level multicast addresses. I was unaware that there were multicast MAC addresses available ...

Early concerns about Ethernet as an automation network included its lack of real-time capabilities. But several new approaches seek to overcome this limitation. One company making waves in the ...

While there are many ways to connect components in embedded systems, the most prominent are the high speed serial standards of Ethernet, PCI Express, and RapidIO. All of these standards leverage ...

The control and management of a Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is a complex task that requires constant supervision. The control and management of a Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Construction, mining, and agricultural machines have become amazing platforms of mobile automation. GPS, for instance, ...