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Thanks to Cisco, Hospital Connects with Experts From Around the World
Here’s a question that has troubled physicians for years: how can a specialist, who is thousands of miles away, examine a patient accurately enough to come to a diagnosis? Patients at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) are lucky that hospital administrators have come up with…
Cisco Wireless Networks Connects a Generation
Your mom and dad are on Facebook, your Grandma has a cell phone and your Uncle Oscar reads the morning paper on his tablet. If you haven’t noticed yet, it’s not just young people who are connected to their devices anymore. Erickson Living—one of the United State’s largest operators of continuing-car…
Cisco Nexus Switches Consolidate Italian Gas Company Data Centers
When Snam, an Italian gas company, needed to update its data centers why did it choose Cisco quipment—specifically Nexus switches—to do the job? Because the Nexus switches were the only platform to offer Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), which allowed virtual machines to be transferred without…
Cisco Mobility Takes the Frustrations out of Hospital Visits
Everyone has had the stressful experience of being in a large building and not knowing where they were. Try adding that uncertainty to a hospital visit and see how your blood pressure reacts when you finally find yourself in the doctor’s office. The 10-story, million-square-foot University Health S…
California Schools Utilizes Cisco Access Points and Switches for Better Learning
It’s no secret that public schools have needs that often go unfunded. So when a school district gets the opportunity to earmark funds for technology enhancements, they need to make sure they get the best. After years of school budgets cuts, the Manteca Unified School District (MUSD) received…
Cisco Aironet Access Points Contribute to a Less Stressful Hospital
There’s never an easy day in a hospital. When you have an IT infrastructure that is outdated and prone to breakdowns, a difficult job in the best circumstances can become a disheartened mess. Roper St. Francis (RSF) is one of South Carolina’s leading healthcare organizations and is in the top 10% o…
Cisco Wins Gold in Data Center Infrastructure Survey
Cisco swept three product categories of IT Brand Pulse’s 2015 Data Center Infrastructure IT Brand Leader survey. Cisco took home the prizes in the WLAN Controllers and Access Points, Fiber Channel Network Monitoring and Network Performance Monitoring product categories. No other company in the surve…
A School in Paradise Gets the Wireless Network of its Dreams
Today schools have two primary goals: educating children and keeping them safe. For the largest coeducational, independent K-12 school on a single campus in the United States, that goal is doubly difficult because their campus spans 60 buildings over 77 acres. The large area coupled with the unique…
Voice over Wi-Fi and You
Wi-Fi Calling, or voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi), is a setting that many people are currently using on their mobile devices, though some may be surprised to know that they’re even using it. The basic idea of how VoWiFi works is: instead of making phone calls over a cellular network, mobile devices chose…