Securing your Cisco Wireless Network

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.
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Managed Services - Application Dependency Monitoring - Top 3 Reasons

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[…]
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Cisco AI Analytics in Operation

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[…]
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Cisco SD-Access Lab

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.
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Meraki Managed Service

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.
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Top 5 Retail Challenges

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.
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Travels in Silicon Valley - facebook and Google

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.
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Environmentally Friendly & Sustainability Targets

At IPTel we are not only passionate about Networking, but also passionate about doing our bit for the environment. As a company we are continually pushing to reduce our carbon footprint and have taken the decision to set targets and sustainability goals which will help us on this quest. These are reported below as well as other initiatives we are[…]
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Wi-Fi Design: Increasing Access Point Density

One of the most common issues we see when fixing up poor performing Wi-Fi networks, is lack of APs. Sufficient AP density and placement are the basics of proper Wi-Fi RF Design.
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Wi-Fi Deployment

There are distinct phases for a Wi-Fi Deployment all of which are reliant on each other to help structure and form a dependable and high performing network that consumers can rely on. In this blog, we'll take a look at the lifecycle of a Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) deployment.
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