Warehouses have very special requirements when it comes to providing Wi-Fi coverage, for a whole host of reasons. They are a challenging environment in RF terms - there's often high ceilings, lots and lots of metal racking, RF attenuation is constantly changing (shelves filling and emptying, forklifts moving loads around and so on) and small devices[…]

Wouldn't it be nice to turn up at a new location and your mobile phone seamlessly connects to the local Wi-Fi Hotspot? What if you could have a mobile-phone-like roaming experience, but with your Wi-Fi devices? There's been a lot of work to enable just this functionality - enter the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) OpenRoaming standard.

In this blog series, I wanted to explore what a Wireless First strategy looks like for a number of customer verticals. Universities have extensive demands on their wireless infrastructure. Should Wi-Fi be the technology of choice for Universities?

Managed Services are designed to complement a business's systems, processes and people in the management of ICT assets. Internal staff are often stretched between BAU work and working on strategic initiatives and projects for the business. Managed Services helps resolve this – and a range of other issues for a business. In this blog, we’ll take a look[…]

For a while now Cisco has had both the Meraki and Cisco product sets. While these both have a part to play in the market and in meeting customer requirements, the strategy from Cisco is really to combine these two technologies. In this blog, we’ll take a look at how Cisco is combing the best from their Meraki and Cisco product sets.

In this blog, we’re going to cover a couple of topics – we’ll start with a look at how you get the most from the Meraki equipment you have deployed and take a look over the new features that Meraki has added to the dashboard – let’s get started!

All customers are different! Sounds simple but there is never a truer statement when it comes to Managed Services. Whether its engineering capabilities and team structures, budgetary restrictions, technology stack or pain points all of these vary on scales for each customer. With this mixture of customers, it no longer makes sense to offer customers[…]

In today's fast-paced world, businesses require reliable and efficient backup solutions to safeguard mission critical infrastructure. The IPTel team are regularly approached by clients seeking a simplified approach to Cisco appliance backups, or when they discover their existing backups have failed, putting business continuity at risk.

One of the common questions I get surrounds the use of Wi-Fi 6 and 5G. Both Wi-Fi 6 and 5G now promise users much higher download speeds and a much more interactive user experience thanks to this. Why then don’t we all just abandon Wi-Fi 6 and use 5G – especially in the corporate environment, where there are internal costs for deploying a wireless LAN.

Modern Wi-Fi Access Points are now capable of much higher transmit powers than the client devices. They can run at 200mW, with the average small client device running at 25mW. One technique to limit transmit power in a Wi-Fi network is to use RF power caps on the APs.