At Interop last week, I had a chance to sit down with Manfred Arndt, who's Distinguished Technologist with HP ProCurve Networking, which has been aggressively going after market share in the ...

The harmonious operation of the various networking devices in a LAN requires correct and valid configuration of the protocols and applications that are enabled in ...

Draft standard Link Layer Discovery Protocol-Media Endpoint Discovery facilitates information sharing between endpoints and network infrastructure devices. Such data will simplify the deployment of ...

LLDP provides for the communication of IEEE 802.3af power levels and VLAN information in a similar manner to that which Cisco pioneered with CDP. LLDP is supported in most of Cisco’s newer switches ...

I am working on a LAN that is predominantly Cisco hardware; Core and Access layer switches and wireless APs. CDP is enabled on all the devices so that they can discover each other. PoE enabled ...