The paper describes how, with a SOPC (System on a Programmable Chip) architecture embedded with a 32-Bit NIOS-II, a Layer 2 Ethernet switch can be implemented in a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) ...

Traditionally, routers, which inspect layer 3, were considerably slower than layer 2 switches. In order to increase routing speeds, many "cut-through" techniques were used, which perform an ...

Axiomtek has introduced its TEN710MW and TEN710UW, the Layer 2 managed/unmanaged industrial Ethernet switches with EN 50155 and EN 45545-2 standards for railway-related applications. The TEN710UW ...

Zoe Hansen / Investopedia Layer 1 and Layer 2 are both scaling solutions designed to improve the processing speed of blockchain networks. Layer 1 scaling solutions are changes made to a blockchain ...

Yet in doing so, L2s still rely on the security of the L1. The widely adopted layer-2 chain for Bitcoin is called the Lightning Network. It lets people pay for things in Bitcoin without requiring ...