Wireless and Mobility

In the aftermath of Thanksgiving, it’s easy to think the holiday season is about crazed crowds and Black Friday pricing. But retailers aren’t just competing on price. They know that it’s the in-store experience that brings customers back. And digital transformation is providing new ways for retailer…

Whether it’s a hotel, a dorm or any situation where a large number of people are living under one roof, making sure that the wireless network is fast and reliant can be a tall task. This is especially true in a university setting where young people and their multitudes of devices are crammed into a…

Like many other industries, hospitality is undergoing a digital transformation. Guest WiFi access has gone from being an amenity–and something that would simply enhance the guest experience–to being just one of many services that are critical to meeting guests’ needs. Today, properties are swarming…

“The Wi-Fi market has been moving to controller-less solutions, and Cisco appears to be walking the controller-less management walk.” This statement by Zeus Kerravala, who wrote this statement for an article he penned for Network World has raised some thoughts in the industry. Let’s examine this and…

In a long election season, one of the events that grabbed a lot of public attention were the Presidential debates between Democratic Candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Candidate Donald Trump. As you may already know, Cisco provided the wireless network infrastructure for the first debate, held…

When you’re in charge of creating a wireless infrastructure for an event that drops 125,000 balloons at its culmination, you know that you deployed a network for a huge party.   Since 2000, Cisco has been the Network Technological Provider for both the Republican and Democratic National Conve…

Here’s a work riddle: When does having a Cisco Aironet Access Point (AP) result in fewer meetings? Answer: Every time. With Cisco Aironet Access Points employing Flexible Radio Assignment (FRA) to automatically adjust the AP’s dual radios to better account for increased network traffic. This means y…

Setting yourself apart from other schools can be difficult, even for a university that has even a small amount of name recognition. For a school that was founded in 2004, making sure you stand out in the crowded field of continuing education is a tough job. This is the tall order that India’s Mody U…

It seems almost counterintuitive. How can a solution that improves the campus experience for students and staff also save the university hundreds of thousands of dollars annually? Better and cheaper rarely co-exist in the same idea. But with Cisco CMX, they do. The University of British Columbia has…