Retail Warehousing is going through a revolution currently. There are many more robotic and automated warehouses in the pipeline, especially for supermarkets, where the supply chain is so important and critical for everyone. Here's my rundown on key technologies for the retail warehouse.

Cisco's ThousandEyes is a tool used to monitor your network experience. When you get those very hard to diagnose issues, typically where users are complaining that the experience isn't very good, it can be very hard to find the root cause. This is where ThousandEyes comes in.

The Cisco Partner Summit is the place for Cisco partners to hear about the vision on Cisco on the next year ahead and further. It’s great to get the insights and hear direct from the people in the Cisco leadership team – so let’s take a look at some insights for 2023.

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!

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[…]

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.

Many organisations use 802.1X EAP-PEAP with MS-CHAPv2 as the inner authentication method (or PEAP for short) to join the corporate WLAN. If you use a username and password to join your WLAN then this is likely what you use too. WPA2 Enterprise is the most commonly used method to encrypt traffic and along with EAP-TLS (certificate based authentication),[…]