WiFi-6E 6GHz- WiFi Spectrum Unleashed

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In April 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated 1,200 megahertz of spectrum for unlicensed use in the 6GHz band. That was the largest fleet of spectrum approved for WiFi since 1989. This Opening of the 6 GHz band more than doubles the amount of spectrum available for...

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Miercom validates deployment simplicity of Cisco’s SASE solution

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With the digital transformation of businesses, security is moving to the cloud. This is driving a need for converged services to reduce complexity, improve speed and agility, enable multicloud networking and secure the new SD-WAN-enabled architecture. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is the convergence of networking and security...

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Trust Analytics and Anti-Spoofing Protection: It’s Already in Your Network

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Nearly every day we can read about “ransomware” holding another organization’s data hostage, shutting their operations down, or disrupting their supply chain. Commercial enterprises. Major utilities. Large healthcare providers. Processing facilities. Even small businesses aren’t safe from being the target of these attacks.The key to preventing your organization...

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Preventing Network Loops! A Feature You Need to be Aware of

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No matter how secured or precise the configurations are, there are some problems you can’t almost avoid, particularly L2 loops. The looped frames have no TTL to decrement and nothing else to lose. It unleashes at a perfect time, a critical production hour or perhaps Friday nights!A common...

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Practical Study Tips for CCNA 200-301 Exam Prep That Includes Practice Tests

Getting through a Cisco Certification exam is not as simple as any other certification exam you can think of. Professional with Cisco CCNA 200-301 certifications are not just intended to connect a few monitors to several CPUs or server systems but are expected to build and manage a...

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Nanosecond Buffer Visibility with Hardware-Based Microburst Detection

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What Are Microbursts and Why Do They Matter?Ever wondered why a switch interface shows an average utilization of well below wire rate, and yet egress discards are incrementing? Most likely, that interface is experiencing microbursts. Often, when multiple input interfaces simultaneously receive traffic destined to a single egress...

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Reinventing Small to Medium Wi-Fi 6 Deployments

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As many organizations are looking at wireless refreshes that include both expansion and upgrades to Wi-Fi 6, those with small, medium or branch locations have some cool (and very useful) new options to consider and should seriously rethink the deployment model.Historically, small, medium and branch wireless deployments have...

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