Large companies have ready-made solutions designed to work with a large number of users. For orchestration, as a rule, a software or hardware Wi-Fi controller is used. its tasks include not only managing the fleet of radio devices, but also providing some basic security functions, including user authorization and VPN

This switch has no competitor with the same number of ports and support for 2.5 G Base-T and 5GBase-T. We tested this model for compatibility with existing network cards and cables, as well as measured performance.

In the modern world, there is enough technology to send Wi-Fi to the entire territory of your office, without bothering with wires. For such cases, super-budget equipment from Tenda is used: do not fill your head with unnecessary parameters and settings: set up Wi-Fi even in those rooms where it is not possible to throw a cable, and when you see the estimate, you will cry with happiness.

This model is designed specifically for video surveillance systems, and the switch supports remote reloading of PoE cameras, continuous power supply, and most importantly - connecting cameras at a distance of up to 250 meters. This is the function we will test with passion.

The main tool for analyzing and verifying data is packet capture. With a full packet Flow record, you can study and analyze the incident to the smallest level of detail. Each packet can be detected and checked using DPI (Deep Packet Inspection), and any stream can be recreated up to the exact time of passage of each packet.

The concept of SmartNIC goes beyond a simple connection and already implies that the network card itself, and not the server's Central processor or storage, processes not only network traffic and protocols, but even some calculations of the application itself. In other words, SmartNIC takes care of offloading everything related to communications, freeing up processor resources for useful power. Cool, right?

For more than 10 years, Intel has been trumpeting the benefits of silicon Photonics, which has been under development for two decades. Intel itself has long adhered to the concept of unbundled computing and storage devices for data centers, combined through optics. During Intel Interconnect Day 2019, the company revealed that its silicon Photonics has grown from a lab project to a product ready to go to customers.

In the previous, 700th generation of network chips, Intel relied on simplicity and availability, so 40-Gigabit processors of the Fortville family did not have most of the hardware offloading mechanisms and were positioned as entry-level solutions. In the new series, Intel realized that network controllers in the modern world have more requirements than before, so the 800 series will first of all please those who were waiting for RDMA support (iWARP & RoCE V2).