Networking

A mobile carrier’s worst nightmare is a customer who doesn’t have wireless service and blames their operator. Maybe they are traveling and don’t have an international cellular plan. Or they are at a stadium for a game, but no traffic is going through because the cellular towers are overloaded. 5G is…

Co-authored by Ray Schnulle, Business Architect   How can I get full visibility into all IT assets that I own and use? How can I control and centralize access to my IT assets and entitlements?  How do I manage my IT assets and associated entitlements in a cost-effective way? I already have an…

The world’s wireless systems are getting huge upgrades this year and next: 5G cellular is beginning its rollout, with the promise of much faster speeds; and Wi-Fi is getting a big upgrade too, with the release of Wi-Fi 6 devices that will give us not just better speed, but better battery life and re…

Wireless networks have helped millions of employees connect to corporate networks and the Internet. But thinking about Wi-Fi as simply a tool to connect people to networks is incomplete. Instead of viewing wireless networks simply as a way to move data, we should really be thinking about Wi-Fi as a…

Organizations need to be agile, flexible, and visionary. Now with My Cisco Entitlements (MCE), you have a platform that can help you achieve this. I am proud to share Cisco’s official introduction of My Cisco Entitlements (MCE) for our customers and partners. MCE is a comprehensive lifecycle managem…

Thanks to intent-based networking (IBN), your IT team no longer needs to panic when it’s asked to support a new business initiative, acquiring a new team, or onboarding new applications. With IBN, IT teams can quickly set up the appropriate networking policies to support any new need, in any domain:…

Technology is leading a change in business landscape driving the need to go digital. Data plays a pivotal role in this digital transformation delivering outcomes that we could not comprehend a few years back. The deluge of data driven from end-points, applications and the network itself can be overw…

Artificial intelligence is changing how we manage networks, and it’s a change we need. Because as we rely more every day on networks and networked applications to keep businesses agile, secure, and competitive, we also need more advanced tools to keep on top of the networks themselves. AI will us ma…

In 1999, the idea of connecting to a network wirelessly was mostly a dream. The only device one might want to connect was a laptop, and they were generally expensive and often restricted to the executive suite in larger enterprises. But 1999 was also the year that the IEEE 802.11 Working Group appro…