wireless controller

December 3, 2019

NETWORKING

IOS XE Next Generation Networks Deliver Digital Magic: Part 2

Part 2 of 2 In part one of this extended post, I explained some of the ways in which next-gen networks based on Cisco IOS XE transform digital experiences, how controller-first delivers consistent policies and security across multiple domains, and the ability to move applications closer to ed…

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…

November 30, 2016

NETWORKING

For Wireless It is Control and not the Controller that Makes the Difference

“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…

November 18, 2015

NETWORKING

Thanks to Cisco, Hospital Connects with Experts From Around the World

Here’s a question that has troubled physicians for years: how can a specialist, who is thousands of miles away, examine a patient accurately enough to come to a diagnosis?  Patients at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) are lucky that hospital administrators have come up with…

July 24, 2013

NETWORKING

Success with Cisco Bonjour Services Directory

Have you seen this video? For those of you who are not familiar with the technology, Bonjour is a multicast DNS(mDNS) based protocol used to advertise and connect to network services such as printers, file servers, TV’s. With the BYOD explosion and increased use of mobile devices for work in the off…

July 12, 2013

NETWORKING

Wireless Controller Redundancy with No Client Reauthentication Needed

Last fall, I blogged about No SSID Outage or Access Point Stateful Switchover introduced with the AireOS 7.3 release whereby if your wireless LAN Controller fails due to some hardware failure, thousands of Access Points fail over sub-second to the standby controller! This is possible due to continuo…