It's taken a while for vendors to start shipping systems based on the latest 64-bit Itanium 2 processor, but they are now starting to appear. One such is the rx2600 from HP, the entry-level member of ...

It may not look much from the outside, but Netgear's GSM7324 is an important new product in two respects. To start with, it's the first Layer 3 switch to come from the budget networking vendor, added ...

It's hard to take a server seriously when it's shaped like a small metal puppy. However, lurking beneath the canine cover of the quirky Eye-box Max from Right Vision is a reasonably well specified server appliance ...

ATTO has been developing bridge solutions for several years and is well known for its fibre channel (FC) to SCSI bridge solutions. Its latest product, the 2500C, enables a direct bridge between Gigabit Ethernet and SCSI ...

Cisco's Aironet 1200 is top of the very popular Aironet range of wireless network access points, and offers a real degree of future-proofing by simultaneously supporting both 2.4GHz (802.11b and 802.11g) and 5GHz (802.11a) wireless networking ...

The major problem with the popular 802.11b wireless ethernet standard is its relatively low speed of 11Mbps. The latest standards, 802.11g and 802.11a (11g uses the same 2.4GHz range as 11b, but with a data rate ...

There's more to the 3Com Network Jack than the name implies. What it does is enable four network devices to be plugged into just one Ethernet connector, the idea being to let you add printers, Voice-over-IP ...

The ZyXEL Prestige 650 Series of routers provides everything needed to share an ADSL broadband connection on a home or small business network. That includes a built-in ADSL modem, ready to plug straight into the phone ...

Small companies installing their first network nearly always buy a general purpose file server, only to find it takes a lot of time and expertise to install and manage. A far simpler, and often cheaper, alternative ...

Despite the long name, 3Com's 11Mbps Wireless LAN OfficeConnect PC Card is actually a small and, in many respects, unremarkable product. Like a host of other Wi-Fi certified cards it conforms to the 802.11b Wireless Ethernet ...

PCs equipped with wireless network adapters can communicate with each other directly, but for more than a handful an access point is required, such as 3Com's Access Point 2000. This makes it possible for up to ...

At first glance, this seems like rather a difficult product to review. It is, after all, just a cable. When you examine the whole package, though, you realise that this humble lead can considerably improve the ...

Once considered the ultimate sign of geekiness, the home network is now becoming commonplace, driven in part by the slow but steady increase in the availability of broadband Internet connections. Given this increasing prevalence of both ...

Wireless networking can make a lot of sense in certain environments, such as private homes and open-plan offices, as you avoid the cost, inconvenience and unsightliness of cables. Wireless adapters and hubs are more expensive than ...

When it comes to networking products, in our minds ease of use is paramount, as these matters can easily get bogged down in a technical morass. Just as well then that the Vigor 2200 is simplicity ...

Whether or not you subscribe to the view that 802.11 and its successors have ridden the coat-tails of Bluetooth hype, it's certainly true that the IEEE's wireless networking protocols have seen much more of the limelight ...

IT journalists tend to be at the forefront of nerdism, and a few years ago it wasn't uncommon to find a squirm* of hacks standing around discussing who had the largest home network. Servers in the ...

The traditional saying goes that nobody got fired for buying IBM equipment, and the same might be said of customers for 3Com's network interface cards. However, 3Com has had to play second fiddle to one of ...

Interest in wireless networking seems to be gathering pace, hanging on the coat-tails of Bluetooth's (deserved or undeserved) hype. Xircom's CreditCard Wireless Ethernet Adapter supports 11Mbps wireless connectivity, conforming to the IEEE 802.11b standard. This means ...

With more and more families and small businesses owning two or more PCs, interest in home networking increases by the week. The advantages of being able to share files, printers, modems - and Internet connections - ...