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Byron Magrane

Product Manager, Marketing

A writer by trade, Byron Magrane is a Product Marketing Manager with over a decade of experience in the technology world. His primary duties include the support of both the Cisco wireless and switching product families.

Byron originally hails from Massachusetts and along with his wife and two daughters, calls the commonwealth his home.

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September 26, 2016

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Did You Hear? Another Wave 2 AP Victory for Cisco!

It’s a question that needs to be asked: when you’re looking to upgrade your network, why wouldn’t you immediately choose Cisco? For the second straight year, Cisco 802.11ac Wave 2 Access Points crushed their competitors in an independent test. Miercom, a nonpartisan testing lab, recently pit the Cis…

September 8, 2016

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Spanish University Takes a Big Leap into the Future with Cisco

Spain’s University of León was slowly starting to fall behind the country’s other universities. The reason? An outdated wireless network was making it tough for communication and idea sharing. Both the teachers and the students were equally frustrated by the speed of the network and consequently it…

August 11, 2016

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Cisco Installs Healthy Wireless Network in UK Hospital

With life and death situations occurring nearly every hour, working in a hospital can be an extremely difficult business. How about working in a hospital with out-of-date WiFi infrastructure that routinely broke down once or twice a month? That’s almost impossible. This was the situation that was fa…

August 9, 2016

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Cisco and Florida Hospital Save Time to Help Stroke Victims

When it comes to a stroke, every second matters. Lee Memorial Hospital Systems (LMHS) located in North Fort Myers, Florida has taken that truism and has adapted it over their network of four acute care hospitals. With a goal of expanding stroke care services, LMHS needed to make sure that the hospit…

July 27, 2016

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Cisco: A Shining Beacon of Light in Florida

People are much more susceptible to light than we imagine. For instance, tests have shown that natural light has a positive affect on people than staid, artificial light. The Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is putting that theory to the test and Cisco is helping them along the way. As the…

June 29, 2016

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Digitization and Cisco Spins Whirlpool’s Network

One of the best things about the Cisco initiative of “There’s Never Been a Better Time” is the way that businesses—and our world as a whole—are transforming for the better. With digitization, simple tasks that used to take a half hour are cut to just minutes. Allowing employees to work from home—and…

June 22, 2016

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Swiss City Finds There’s Never Been a Better Time for Digitization

When we talk about digitization and “There’s Never Been a Better Time”, the assumption is that we’re only talking about the future—and putting aside the past. That’s not true. The city of Biel, Switzerland has been settled for hundred of years, but they are getting in on digitization too. For older…

June 8, 2016

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Exhibit A: London’s National History Museum and Cisco are a Perfect Fit

Generally, museums are pretty large places with dozens of exhibits and thousands of pieces of artwork to view. The National History Museum (NHM) in London is no exception. When museum brass discovered that there was a way for their visitors to be connected and not miss the things that they most want…

May 31, 2016

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Hospital’s Growth Spurt is a “Big Easy” for Cisco

Growth is a part of any successful business. Unfortunately so are the pains that come with that expansion. Consider Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, healthcare system: Ochsner Health System. During the last 10 years, Ochsner Health System has exploded from one hospital to 28 owned and affil…