huawei

September 19, 2018

NETWORKING

Miercom Verifies Performance of Cisco Branch Office Routers vs. Huawei and HPE

The digital disruption The next generation of networking has arrived. Driven by the growth in devices connecting to multiple networks and clouds, large and small enterprises alike demand secure, software-defined networks. Finding the right platform that offers high performance, comprehensive securit…

December 7, 2017

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 29: The State of OpenStack, and a Few Other Things, with Ben Kepes

He’s an ultra-marathoner, a highly respected tech industry reporter, and an angel investor (he’s not at all fond of that last label for its sheer pretentiousness, but I can’t think of any other way to describe what he does). He works a lot, but doesn’t really work for anyone—except himself. All of w…

November 13, 2017

NETWORKING

Cisco: Balancing Security with Simplicity

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…

November 9, 2017

NETWORKING

Network Automation – Now!

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…

November 3, 2017

NETWORKING

Miercom Agrees: Huawei is no Match for Feature-Rich Cisco

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…

November 1, 2017

NETWORKING

Wired Infrastructure: Optimized and Secure Switching Resources

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…

October 27, 2017

NETWORKING

Miercom Proves: Cisco versus Huawei is No Contest

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…

October 24, 2017

NETWORKING

Analyzing Network Traffic with Encrypted Traffic Analytics

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…

October 16, 2017

NETWORKING

Miercom Verifies Performance of Enterprise Campus Infrastructure in a Cisco vs. Huawei Bake Off

Networking product datasheet specifications at cursory glance may appear similar when you compare vendors. However, the devil is in the details and the similarities end quickly when testing and measuring their capabilities on performance, security, power efficiency, failover handling, and software p…