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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who argued three years ago for pushing more of the blockchain's computational load onto affiliated networks known as "layer-2 networks" or "rollups," has just ...

Cisco is moving to lower the cost of enterprise networking by essentially adding more functionality to routers at the edge of the network. Announced today, the Cisco Integrated Services Router with ...

A network device that forwards traffic based on layer 3 information at very high speeds. Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to ...