At IPTel, we're a Cisco Premier partner (one down from Gold). The Gold partners are the "big boys" in the market, but there's space for smaller, specialised partners - and that's where we come in. Being a partner, we get access to the Cisco Partner Summit, and in this blog, I'll lift the curtain a little on some of the themes from this year. Enjoy!

Cisco have announced the end-of-life of the Cisco 5508 wireless controller, as of August 2018. If you already have SmartNet on your product, support will continue until October 2020. After that, you're on your own. For us as a Company, the 5508 has proved a solid and reliable product over the years, a benchmark if you like by which all other[…]

It’s probably fair to say that most of us don’t enjoy dealing with any kind of licensing fulfilment because the experience can be somewhat daunting. Cisco offers the use of Cisco Smart Licensing as a way to ease the burden of network device licensing.

Many patients are infected with various diseases during their stay in hospital. The most obvious way to reduce cross-infection is with hand washing. Hospitals have a requirement to reduce the transmission rates of infection from patient to patient, but staff are always busy, going in and out of rooms, sometimes only very briefly. Technology can help in[…]

We've been building Wi-Fi networks to meet Real Time Location Grade (RTLS) for quite a while now. Depending on how the APs are laid out, and the network tuned, typical accuracy achieved can be sub 5m in location accuracy. Any location solution based upon Wi-Fi has some variance in accuracy between areas though. Some RTLS vendors support the use of[…]

Armen Vardanian joined us in May 2019 as a senior consultant, and he’s been a great asset to the IPTel team. With a long history with new product innovation, Armen has been working with DNA Spaces, AiRISTA, CenTrak and other high granularity RTLS products.

Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) is an Enterprise grade AAA product that has been around for seven years.

At IPTel we are keen to bring you the best of technology, skills and up to date information from the Industry. We've put a series of presenters together to talk on subject of interest to our loyal blog readers. We're calling this our "Wi-Fi Presentation Series".

The Cisco 3800 series access point is a solid choice of AP from Cisco. The 3800 combines 802.11ac Wave 2 capability with the capability to add a module - so you can add a WiPS module or Hyperlocation to the AP.

It's a wrap! The Cisco Partner awards and Cisco Live are complete for another year. It's a huge honour and privilege this year that IPTel Solutions have won the Project Delivery. IPTel have been awarded one of the Cisco partner awards - Project Delivery Excellence: Cisco Partner of the Year.