Networking

With the growing threat landscape, it is imperative for product designers to build integrated security. This means that the security must be total and go across the board from procurement to deployment. This total security allows customers to establish trust. Often the introduction of this security…

Why software automation support is needed in today’s networks Anyone working in network admin today knows that the network has long since blown passed the days of being managed as a collection of devices.  The days of network admins using the CLI to configure devices, or “automating” some tasks with…

In my last blog, I stressed the importance of migrating to a network that predicts, adapts and protects. Your network infrastructure is the enabler for digital transformation and is crucial to your organization’s success. Once you have the right network infrastructure in place, what new benefits can…

A modern-day enterprise Wi-Fi infrastructure has to be multi-faceted. It should be optimized, not only for high performance, but also in order for other areas to maintain a smooth flow of Wireless LAN operations. Enterprise Wi-Fi vendors offer various features to furnish the business requirements of…

Over the course of the past decade, expectations of the network have changed dramatically. Customers are insisting on simpler, more agile networking. They’re also less interested in the performance of the pieces that make up the network than they are in the outcomes – the business results – the netw…

Cisco commissioned Miercom to conduct an independent performance test on Huawei’s Agile Campus Network architecture. The test report consists of wired and wireless test cases. For the wired test cases, Huawei’s S5720-HI Series Agile Switch was compared and validated against the Cisco Catalyst 9300 a…

Miercom—a nonpartisan testing lab—recently published an analysis on Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture & Huawei’s Agile Solution.  The report consisted of wired as well as wireless test cases.  We’ll take a deeper look at wireless performance tests in the report and in the coming days and week…

The complexity of network management often produces unintended conflicts. The network manager knows how the network should perform, but somewhere between design and implementation, coding errors happen, wired and wireless networks conflict, security gaps are overlooked, and performance is compromise…

Today, knowing who is using your network is table stakes. What’s essential is knowing how the network is being accessed, what applications are being used, when they are used and most importantly, whether or not those applications are safe enough and compliant with your organization’s policies. Indep…