Networking

I am excited to share that Cisco, once again, secured a leadership position in Gartner 2016 WAN Optimization Magic Quadrant. This comes shortly after the Best of Interop win in Las Vegas for Cisco Enterprise NFV. According to the report, Leaders in this Magic Quadrant have a broad feature set, inclu…

With the inevitable explosion of more wireless devices and Wi-Fi hungry apps, does your current wireless network have the ability to handle multi-gigabit speeds? If it doesn’t, there’s no need to worry, one of the key innovations of 802.11ac wave 2 allows for greater over-the-air throughput by provi…

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…

Meraki has always focused on simplifying powerful technology so our users can focus on their own mission. Originally, cloud managed wireless allowed users to deploy large, sophisticated wireless networks and reach more people. The results speak for themselves. From our humble beginnings with our fir…

For such a basic idea, BYOD can turn into a complex issue. Network administrators at ROC Friese Poort, a school of 13,000 students in the Netherlands, were concerned that their wireless network’s capacity and performance wasn’t robust enough to handle the influx of devices on campus. Combating the i…

Let me begin with some nostalgia. Allow me to transport you back to the 1990s… when fashion got rid of shoulder pads, a new rock sound was coming out of Seattle, South Park and The Simpsons brought crude humor to the masses, and the Internet became more available. Access became faster and cheaper, a…

The Wall Street Journal recently stated that one of our greatest frustrations is traffic and our daily commute. I live in a large city and travel often to big cities for work, and I can personally relate to this. Sitting in traffic makes me impatient and annoyed. But did you know that digital transf…

Tsunami Slams Japanese Coastline. Train Derailment Injures 100. Terrorists Attack Airport. We have all read these headlines too often. Sadly, disasters usually strike without notice and timely response by public agencies is critical. As citizens, we depend upon public services agencies for our safet…

We’ve all watched as companies like Uber, Airbnb, Square and even Amazon have fundamentally changed the way we interact, consume and buy. Traditional business models have been completely flipped on their heads and the lines between business sectors have become blurred. Whether you are an IT network…