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William Donaldson

Cisco Port Security

Port Security is a traffic control feature on Cisco switches that operate in layer 2. It allows an administrator to configure specific switch ports to permit only a specified number of source MAC addresses. One of its primary uses is to prevent “dumb” switches to be added to […]

The Wonderful World of Cabling

  There are numerous types of cabling one can use. Coaxial cables, created in the 1880’s, typically connected television sets to home antennas and also supported 10Mbps Ethernet. These old cables suffer from stiffness, which created issues during installation. Twisted Pair Cables, invented in the 1990’s, started with […]