Many years ago, there was a “new kid on the block” called SD-WAN. It was the buzz-word that everyone was talking about; the ability to break the chains that kept us bound to a “legacy” WAN.

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.

There are three main components to a Wi-Fi Access Point, each of which are critical to its function: Radio Antenna The CPU There are many different ways to split the three components above, but every Wi-Fi solution has all three components.

We all love Wi-Fi, but you've got to install your access points somewhere. Typically they're installed on the T-Bar of a suspended ceiling - sometimes though you have to secure the AP, or hide it for aesthetics reasons. In this blog, we'll look at some options.

What is Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (CURWB) — and why do we need it when traditional wireless already exists? If you’ve ever worked in environments where machines are constantly moving — ports, mines, factories, terminals — you know one thing for sure: The biggest issue is that when a client roams between access points, it can cause brief[…]

Cisco Private 5G gives business the opportunity to run their own mobile network. This isn’t a simple undertaking of course, but it does offer some valuable benefits for businesses that have the right use cases.

Wi-Fi works with radio waves. These are similar in nature to sound you can hear (not exactly, but let me have a little artistic licence). Why do you need to have Wi-Fi that works within reasonable RF power bounds? I've come up with a little story to help. Let's translate Wi-Fi in to audio. So here's the story..

When designing a new wireless network, RF power levels are often overlooked or misunderstood. Depending on the type of deployment, power levels can have a great impact on client performance and reliability. And here's the catch - not all Wi-Fi channels run at the same power!

Unplanned interruptions or reductions in the quality of IT services all underline what makes an Incident. When incidents arise effective Incident Management is key in ensuring swift restoration of service, clear communication to all stakeholders, adopting lessons learnt and a number of additional components that all form the handling of and Incident.

AIOps, or artificial intelligence for IT operations, is a term that refers to the use of machine learning, data analytics, and automation to improve the performance, reliability, and security of IT systems. Here at IPTel we are always looking at ways to engineer improvements to our service and leveraging AIOps is one such way.