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Managed Services - Is your MSP right for you?

Selecting the correct Managed Services provider for your business can seem a daunting task and huge investment. Through best intentions though it may not work out, and a company might choose to leave a managed service provider (MSP) for various reasons. While MSPs offer several advantages, there can be situations where the relationship is no longer[…]
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Managed Services - Application Dependency Monitoring (FSO)

Internal Business Critical Applications? Remote Sites underpinning your business functions or maybe a reliance on multiple SaaS vendors providing key services to your business. Regardless of the structure and makeup of your environments, establishing the best performing network is critical in optimizing the performance for these platforms.
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Education Campus Technology: Top 5 Future Ideas

In terms of networking, educational establishments are often at the forefront of the technology wave. For Universities, colleges and large schools alike, they have the opportunity to test out the latest and greatest innovations in networking – making the technology work for them, and then reaping the benefits of deploying at scale.
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Japan Land of (mostly) High Technology

It seems like an eternity ago now, but a few years ago, I went on holiday to Japan. Japan is a country with a lot of high tech of course. It can be a complicated maze to navigate sometimes though!
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Cisco SDA Architecture

Cisco's SDA Architecture maps the new SDA Fabric design to the traditional "core-distribution-access" network. This blog provides an introduction to compare the traditional network designs with the new SDA Fabric designs.
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Electronic Shelf Labelling

Supermarkets and many other retailers have to label hundreds to thousands of items on their shelves. This is time consuming and mundane - what if there were a better way? Electronic Shelf Labelling is the answer - here's how to integrate this with your Cisco Access Points.
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Wi-Fi and The Problem With RADAR (DFS)

It sounds like a bit of a stretch for most people that Wi-Fi would have an issue with Radar. Microwave ovens are a pretty well known interferer with Wi-Fi in the 2.4GHz spectrum (they generate alerts for interferers, so we know they're there!)
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Cheapest vs Best Value Wi-Fi Design

In the wireless industry, price is a large factor of the vendor you choose. Rightly so, of course - if you are spending on a product, you want the best value! However, a Wi-Fi design, survey and heatmaps are not an off the shelf product.
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Cisco 9124 Antenna Guide

Cisco have released the external 9124 variant access point. This AP has a very handy three radios - one 2.4GHz and dual 5GHz radios. Why is that useful? Well the key use case is probably Mesh - you can have a dedicated 5GHz backhaul and a separate radio running the client serving 5GHz. The antenna selection though isn't as simple as you'd think. Let's[…]
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Warehouse Managed Services

Managed Services are important for many businesses but not every business is the same. In this blog we’ll explore how Managed Services for your network can make your warehouse operations successful and pain free!
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