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Posted on May 16, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

As there are many configurations of HPE DL380 Gen10 servers, which is the most suitable for your need? Router-switch.com now provides you 8 popular configurations of HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 series servers. Let’s view. (Click the image above to learn details.) Entry-Level Solution HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 3106 1P 1.7GHz 8Core 16GB 2x1T SAS 7.2K…

Empower Your Business with the TOP 10 Cisco Items

Router-switch.com is having a big promotion on top-rated Cisco products including routing, switching, collaboration and security. Routing The 4000 Series offers solutions for highly secure SD-WAN connectivity, application experience, unified communications, network automation, virtualization, and branch and direct Internet access security–all in one platform. Promotional Cisco ISR 4000 Models: ISR4221/K9, ISR4321/K9, and ISR4331/K9 Switching Small…

10 Tools, Selectors Help You Find the Right Network Product

Router-switch.com collected 10 configuration tool and network hardware selectors to help customers easily find the right network items. Also wanna know the latest prices of Cisco, HPE, Huawei, Dell? Cisco/HPE/Huawei Price Checking Tool can help you! More resources such as data sheets, Cisco EOL & EOS products, are collected to help you know more guides…

OLT Device Introduction: Huawei SmartAX EA5800 Series

Posted on July 25, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

What is the OLT? An optical line termination (OLT), also called an optical line terminal, is a device which serves as the service provider endpoint of a passive optical network (From Wikipedia). This image tells you where the OLT is…

The Types Comparison of SFP and QSFP

Posted on July 18, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

The small form-factor pluggable (SFP) is a compact, hot-pluggable network interface module used for both telecommunication and data communications applications. We always see them in those SFP slot of routers, switches, and others. Both of SFP and QSFP have the…

3 Questions to Consider when Choosing Juniper Security SRX Gateways

Posted on July 16, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

3 Questions to Consider when Choosing Juniper Security SRX Gateways Juniper Network company is one of the network hardware manufacturers, which want to bring simplicity to networking with products, solutions, and services that connect the world. So, they produce routers,…

How to Cool Down Your Data Center in the Hot Summer?

Posted on July 11, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

With the increase of data center capacity, the expansion of scale and the introduction of new devices and technologies, servers and key equipment are constantly threatened by excessive temperature. In the summer, many problems in the data center room followed.…

Intel or AMD? 10 Tips Help You Choose CPU

Posted on July 9, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

As we all know, the current world’s processor giants are Intel and AMD. The overall gap between the two is not big, but AMD still ranks behind Intel with a weak gap. Then, when we choose CPU, which one is…

How to Identify the Naming of Your Dell PowerEdge Servers?

Posted on July 4, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

Now, look at this screenshot from Dell.com, we will find there are various Dell PowerEdge rack servers. Except rack servers, there are also tower servers, modular servers, and others. SO, as there are various letters and numbers of the servers’…

9 Concepts and 2 Principles that New to Telecommunication Need to Know

Posted on July 2, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

Are you new to telecommunication or learning about networking technology? As this discipline is not easy, I want to share something to you in this article. You will learn common 9 concepts and 2 principles of tele-communication below. 1.9 common…

Comparison of Cisco, Huawei and Juniper Command Line

Posted on June 27, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

As three of the top vendors in ICT, Cisco, Huawei and Juniper provide us many excellent products. However, different vendor, different command line. Every engineer will find that he or she must learn different command line, when operating those different…

4 FAQ You Need to Know About Cisco Devnet Certifications

Posted on June 25, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco recently announced that their certification and training program include the DevNet certifications. DevNet certifications is designed for both the network professionals and software developers to optimize and write applications for the new network and choose the technology skills they…

Fortinet FortiGate NGFW Comparison: High-end Series vs. Mid-range Series vs. Entry-level Series

Posted on June 20, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

Fortinet firewalls, the Fortigate series provides various levels of next-generation firewalls to meet the different demands. This ensures that enterprise campus, core data-center, or internal segments, FortiGate can fit seamlessly into customers’ environment. However, FortiGate family includes High-end NGFW, Mid-range…

Workstations vs. Servers vs. PC

Posted on June 18, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

To buy a personal computer, we know that there are desktops, business books, game books, but occasionally have seen workstations. If you are working in the enterprise also know that there are servers. What are the differences of workstations, servers…

4 Steps to Configure & Buy an HPE DL380 Gen10 Server

Posted on June 13, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

As there are various configurations of HPE DL380 Gen10 server, according to the different processors, memories, hard drives… it’s difficult to choose the right one for our network. To help this work easier, Router-switch.com build a simple tool to solve…

Memory Card: What’s the difference between ROM and RAM?

Posted on June 11, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

Memory, in this article, I don’t mean the human memory. It’s the memory card, a hardware which is used in computers, servers and other devices. As technology developed, now there are many types of memory card. The main types are…

PoE vs. PoE+ vs. UPoE (PoE++)

Posted on June 6, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

We know that some of small network devices can be powered by ethernet, that is, we say PoE. Now there are not only PoE and PoE+, but also UPoE. What are their differences? Power over Ethernet or PoE describes any…

Dell PowerEdge R730 vs. Dell PowerEdge R740

Posted on June 4, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

As both of the Dell PowerEdge R730 and R740 are the Dell R700 series servers, and R740 is the newer one, which will be the better choice for our needs? In this article, we will compare R730 with R740 and…

Cisco Server vs. HPE Server vs. Dell Server

Posted on May 30, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

There are many brands that providing servers in the market now. Which will you choose? How about Cisco, HPE or Dell? Server Market Actually, compare to HPE and Dell, Cisco servers are not so hot. The image below tells us…

5 FAQs of Cisco Catalyst 9000 Stacking

Posted on May 28, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

As Catalyst 9000 switches are going to be the replacements of the old Catalyst switches, we now should learn more about the features of Catalyst 9000. In this article, we will list 5 FAQs of Cisco Catalyst 9000 stacking features.…

6 Expert Configurations of Dell PowerEdge R540 Server

Posted on May 23, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

Adapt to a variety of application demands, the Dell PowerEdge R540 Server provides a 2-socket, 2U rack server that offers an ideal balance of resources and affordability. As the servers need to configure processor, memory, hard drive and others, Router-switch.com…

HPE MSA Considerations and Best Practices for vCenter and Recovery

Posted on May 21, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

HPE MSA Storages, Flash-enabled arrays that raise the entry storage bar, making application acceleration possible for a wide range of budgets. Use this guide to learn about HPE MSA considerations and best practices for vCenter. (See HPE MSA Storages Models…

8 Popular Configurations of HPE DL380 Gen10 Servers

Posted on May 16, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

3 Questions to Consider When Choosing an HPE Gen10 Server

Posted on May 14, 2019 by RS-Tech | 0 Comments

HPE provide various series of servers to meet a variety of customers’ needs. There are ProLiant series (DL380 Gen10, DL360 Gen10, etc.), Apollo servers, Edgeline series and others. As the server family is so big, how can we choose a…