Routers and network switches aren't the same hardware—depending on your setup, you may need both.

Trisha Jandoc was an associate writer at CNET covering broadband and everything related to home internet. She graduated from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a focus on ...

It’s annoying when you run out of Ethernet ports on your router. That, or when you have a home entertainment center and want wired connections for all your devices, but you don’t want to string a ...

When a network router doesn't have enough network ports to connect all the necessary devices, a switch can be used to add additional ports. In the case of business networks, switches are often ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has broadened the range of its Aruba Networking wired and wireless portfolio, along with new distributed services switches, to offload security and network services to ...