Amphenol Corp., a major network equipment supplier, today announced plans to buy most of rival CommScope Holding Co.’s business operations for $10.5 billion. The deal was warmly received by investors.

What are the five core principles of hardware/software co-design? How do these principles help build a geographically diverse engineering organization that can successfully develop complex solutions ...

In many organizations the core network is taken for granted, largely because Cisco Systems Inc., the preeminent enterprise network vendor, has built expansion headroom into its Catalyst 6500 switches, ...

Martin Lund will lead the group responsible for delivering the silicon, optics, and hardware for Cisco's core switching, routing, and wireless offerings. Cisco today said it has hired industry veteran ...

One of the useful features in new networking hardware is extra transmit queues, to give a latency advantage to outgoing audio and video packets. A new kernel feature lets device driver writers use ...