Putting smart home devices on their own VLAN sounds like a pretty straightforward task on paper. You isolate your IoT gadgets, and as a result, you tighten security and keep your main network free of ...

Have you been told that VLANs are the ultimate solution to your network woes? That they’ll magically secure your infrastructure, eliminate complexity, and solve all your traffic management headaches?

A Layer 3 switch -- also referred to as a multilayer switch -- combines the duties of a switch and a router. It acts as a switch because it connects devices that are on the same IP subnet or virtual ...