Talk:Networking hardware

Cleanup tags
I've added these to highlight the fact that this article presents a very blinkered approach to the subject, and contains numerous inaccuracies. For example, "The file server is usually at the heart of the network, which controls the information between nodes of the network". The first clause may be true of small office LANs with a single storage server (probably providing "Windows shares") but it doesn't really apply anywhere else. The second clause is simply wrong - a file server simply does not "control information between nodes of [a] network". Really, the article needs a complete rewrite by somebody with relevant experience, or to be deleted and replaced with a redirect to an appropriate existing article. PeteVerdon 18:38, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Requested rewrites have occurred. ~Kvng (talk) 15:46, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Companies that make Networking Hardware
There is only so much Networking Hardware available - from Hubs to Switches to Routers to Wireless - could this page also be a roundup of the different companies and the generic products they produce?? Or should it be under Networking_vendor? --Jezarnold (talk) 13:59, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
 * * Perhaps the new page should be List_of_Networking_Vendors ??? --Jezarnold (talk) 22:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * No One Has Responded... so I have added List_of_Networking_hardware_vendors page to create a market share roundup of all the top companies. --Jezarnold (talk) 17:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

DTE vs. DCE
From the content, I gather that network device is a synonym for data communications equipment. I suspect it is not a technical term and so can also refer to data terminal equipment. --Kvng (talk) 14:48, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Good point. I've taken the liberty of copying your comment from talk:Computer networking device, as I've merged that article into this article.  Perhaps part of the issue may be that networking hardware has evolved over time, and networking hardware was used in the dial-up era of the 1980s and 90s, before the Internet took over.  Seems there is no history of networking hardware article, analogous to the history of computing hardware for computers. —Wbm1058 (talk) 12:07, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

I've proposed to merge Data circuit-terminating equipment into this article. -—Kvng 15:26, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
 * reject : It is possible for DCEs to be used for networking, but there is no mandate for that. An example of DCE which has nothing at all to do with networking is a dial-up modem which is used for remote access...no PPP, no SLIP, no other networking software, just remote access, typically with another modem and DTE such as a computer or serial port server "on the other end" of the phone call. -- Joe (talk) 19:45, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
 * So, you don't consider a modem to be a type of networking hardware? -—Kvng 23:27, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

has removed the merge banner with the following edit comment: "no. Data circuit-terminating equipment is a specific type of hardware that can be linked from this article." ~KvnG 21:30, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Different people have different than the other Kokphinchian1682 (talk) 15:35, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

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