Cisco RX-SOP is a feature that de-tunes the receive sensitivity of an Wi-Fi Access Points. Essentially what feature is doing is to tell the AP to ignore transmissions it hears below a certain threshold - it's not removing the traffic from the air, but allowing the AP to ignore it and be able to talk over the top of background noise.

There’s many firewalls out there to pick from – and they tend to be expensive and complex to configure. Meraki has managed to make a security appliance that both offers simplicity of management and is highly secure – in this blog, we’ll take a look at the Meraki MX appliance.

Software Defined Access - or SDA for short - is the technology used for automated network deployment, configuration and maintenance. The best way to find out if it works? Deploy it in your lab - and that's exactly what we did!

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.

What is RF Tuning? When a Wi-Fi network is installed, it should automatically set access point power and channels. It doesn't always get it right, so for that reason we strongly recommend any new install to undertake an initial RF Tuning activity.

Warehouses have very special requirements when it comes to providing Wi-Fi coverage, for a whole host of reasons. They are a challenging environment in RF terms - there's often high ceilings, lots and lots of metal racking, RF attenuation is constantly changing (shelves filling and emptying, forklifts moving loads around and so on) and small devices[…]

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.

A lot is starting to be written about Cisco’s DNA Center and to a large extent, Cisco are betting a lot on the product. There’s also a mixed reaction to Cisco software, with the older products (looking at you here, Cisco Works), not having been brilliant in terms of performance and capability.

In this blog series, I wanted to explore what a Wireless First strategy looks like for a number of customer verticals. Universities have extensive demands on their wireless infrastructure. Should Wi-Fi be the technology of choice for Universities?