I took my Cisco CCIE around 18 years ago now, but like everyone who's attempted the lab, you don't forget it quickly! Passing the lab is no easy feat - there's a pre-qualification exam, followed by the lab itself. I've heard it said that 80% of people that start the CCIE journey never pass, so there's a reason it's right up there with the hardest[…]

The world is talking about the benefits that Machine Learning and AI will bring to us. Often hyped up and part of a story warning us of out of control robots, the future use of these technologies in networking is rather more benign – they will help us to monitor and maintain a network.

Wi-Fi continues to evolve at a considerable pace. Few innovations in the Wi-Fi space have been quite as ground-breaking though as the introduction of the 6GHz spectrum in Wi-Fi 6E. Wi-Fi 6E is game changing – but there are some considerations and things you need to know in deploying 6E.

Security is always about a key principle of defenence in depth and wireless security is no different. In this blog, we are going to take a look at some of the key principles of security for Cisco wireless network, as well as some of the specific tools you can use.

Pretty much every business these days relies on cloud applications. Those applications of course are delivered across not only your internal network infrastructure, but the internet. If you are a larger enterprise, this WAN connectivity it likely to be over an SD-WAN overlay. There’s a lot to go wrong with all that, so when your users complain of poor[…]

Cisco Artificial Intelligence allows for deep learning to take place on your network. What does that buy you? This means that rather than just having threshold alarms (that keep generating alarms on every issue), you can intelligently decide when to alert - based on the normal network baseline. This cuts down false alarms and let's you focus on real[…]

We have invested quite heavily in training and ensuring we're ready to roll out Cisco SDA Fabric deployments at scale. One of the big ticket items on this journey is to have a full fabric lab. We've built this lab and ready to share with our customer base.

Meraki is a great fit for Managed Services providers. Meraki offers a common dashboard of the environment and the ability to manage all customers networks from one pane of glass, while keeping these securely separated. In this blog, we'll take a look at the Meraki Managed Service offering.

Retail has always been a difficult business, with customers quick to vote with their feet. Retailers are always looking for innovation to help improve their business outlook and customer experience.

I paid homage to the tech companies in Silicon Valley while on holiday (geeky I know). Having worked with Cisco technologies for over twenty five years now, I just wanted to take a look at the Cisco campus and see for myself what it looked like - might as well throw in a few other tech companies while I was at it, I thought.