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*Guest post on behalf of Lucas Hanson* In almost all of my conversations with customers, two questions continually come up “How does this solution save us money?” and “How does this solution enhance the user experience?” Using the Cisco® 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 4000), UCS E-Ser…

Enterprise Agreements (EAs) are growing in popularity as organizations are looking for flexible agreements and streamlined procurement to meet their evolving business needs. Historically, these types of buying programs are ideal for large organizations that want to get the right tools into the right…

Even though business has shifted from brick-and-mortar to online, many retail stores are beginning to realize that optimizing the in-store shopping experience is just as important as the online experience. Providing a pleasant and unique in-store visit could mean a direct increase in online sales. T…

We spend a lot of time talking about Wi-Fi coverage, SD-WAN tunneling, switching redundancy, etc., but the true measure of quality isn’t a perfectly deployed network… it’s an excellent user experience. As with all things, it’s often more difficult to diagnose the problem than to fix it. With more an…

As WAN network administrators, we have all run into that situation where a business group wants to roll out a new service, and we realize there is not enough bandwidth available in many of our locations. It then typically will take 90 – 120 days to add new bandwidth and then hours of dealing w…

Wondering what’s new and next for The Network. Intuitive? There’s been so much amazing progress in analytics and automation since we ushered in the era of intent-based networking. You’ve likely experienced firsthand how this unique approach, built on Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA), enables…

How often does IT receive the complaint “the network is slow?” End users complaining about application problems can be frustrating, especially when it is not always the network that is the cause. When those complaints come from remote sites, eliminating the WAN as the cause of the proble…

Enterprises are increasingly looking to their wireless network to help automate and manage their operations. While connected devices play a huge role in this trend, they tend to be highly proprietary, consisting of specialized tags, sensors, and management systems that don’t talk to each other. The…

“Mighty oaks from little acorns grow!” According to Marro Kim, former Communications Infrastructure Manager at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, it wasn’t supposed to be this big of a project. The University was only going to improve a ten-year-old wireless network but a…