gigabit

Embedded switches for custom needs and extreme conditions

Guest Blogger: Hari Srinivasan, Sr. Product Manager Hari Srinivasan manages the Industrial Ethernet and Embedded Switching products at Cisco’s IoT Networking group.   From supporting soldiers in the battlefield or first responders at a disaster scene, to maintaining high-value infrastructure, a…

December 12, 2017

SMALL BUSINESS

New Features and Better Value – Now On Cisco Smart Switches

The Cisco Small Business Switching Team is excited to announce the availability of 2.3.5 software release, delivering significant feature updates to the 250 Series Smart Switches. We have added Static routing (IPv4/IPv6) Security with ACL QoS with ACL CLI through Telnet/SSH Dual image Time based…

April 5, 2017

SMALL BUSINESS

New Addition to Cisco SMB Switch Family

This month, we made another big step in completing our full vision of next generation SMB switches. The Cisco Small Business Team is pleased to announce 19 new models in the successful 550X and 350X series switching product line. These new models provide Gigabit or Fast Ethernet with 10-Gigabit upli…

The race to gigabit internet is on, and cable operators can take a shortcut

Nobody loves door-to-door salesmen. Unless, that is, they’re offering fiber. Then, they’re more popular than the ice cream truck. If you’re a cable operator, that’s a big problem. Your competitors—both telcos and new entrants like Google—make fiber sound better than chocolate. They’re rolling it out…

July 10, 2014

NETWORKING

Winning Back the Weather Radio Channels Adds Capacity to 5GHz Wi-Fi Spectrum

In my last blog on 5 GHz spectrum, I discussed the recent FCC ruling that permitted outdoor access points to use the U-NII 1 band (5150-5250 MHz). But the story doesn’t  stop there. As mentioned last time, there are significant technical challenges to using the 5 GHz band. It is not cleared sp…

July 3, 2014

NETWORKING

Staying Connected at Northern Kentucky University

Northern Kentucky University is among the fastest growing universities in Kentucky. It hosts over 15,000 students with about 13,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students. The goal of the wireless program at NKU is to provide secure, robust and ubiquitous wireless access throughout the campus, bo…

June 2, 2014

NETWORKING

802.11ac: That’s the Answer. What’s the question?

Everybody’s talking about 802.11ac, but we’ve sensed some confusion for next steps as far as how CIO’s and IT organizations should be approaching the new standard. Should I move to 802.11ac? You’re probably thinking: Chris, you’re a leader at Cisco, of course you want me to migrate to 802.11ac. That…

April 25, 2014

NETWORKING

The Future of Wireless: Times are Changing Before Our Eyes

We live in amazing times, ask anyone who ever had to look up a phone number in a phone book. In the past this was the only way you could find the number to your favorite restaurant if you wanted to make a reservation. Today, all we need to do is reach into our pocket or purse and grab our mobile dev…