The definition of Software Defined Networking (SDN) continues to broaden, today including functions such as configuration automation and orchestration. While these tasks aren’t strictly SDN, the fact ...

User adoption of new wireless technologies presents several challenges. Three of the biggest that hamper deployment and widespread use of new technologies are installing infrastructure, ease of use, ...

Thanks to tools like Ansible, network administrators can configure a vendor's network device without knowing its command-line syntax. Users can also implement configurations across several devices ...

2 weeks ago I put Ubuntu back on my laptop, since somebody finally figured out how to make our campus wireless work under linux. It uses WPA so it took a little bit of WPASupplicant Judo to get it ...

Network devices control how traffic can travel across the network and have security monitoring features. Refine and preserve your settings by managing network device configurations. Network devices ...

In my conversations with customers and partners, there are two topics that are different but somewhat related: compliance and device configuration management. In my latest blog, “Compliant or not?

Using tools built into macOS, administrators can console into network and computing devices via USB to establish a connection, as well as configure these devices using the Screen command. In IT, many ...

Certain network services require more effort by network engineers to provide a high-quality end-user experience. For services such as unified communications and distributed database architectures, ...

The recent T-Mobile data breach, reportedly facilitated by attackers gaining access to an unprotected router and from there into the network, could have been prevented through the use of network ...

Network engineers who learned the command line interface (CLI) for configuring network devices often prefer to make changes using manual processes, citing the speed with which changes can be applied.

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...