In late 2020 Cisco acquired a California start-up called ThousandEyes, a software-as-a-services (SaaS) platform used by some of the biggest hitters in the IT world: Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce and IBM to name a few. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about - this explainer blog will get you all the inside information!

Cisco Catalyst Center is Cisco’s answer to the SDN (Software Defined Networking) question. The next generation of network management is about a much more dynamic approach to network management with automatic insights and health scores on the network. How do you provide intent based networking, providing simplicity of management and control, while[…]

Meraki can help manage your network. Every business has to run a network, but why not make it as simple to manage as possible. Take a look at this fun video from Meraki - this is how Meraki delivers simple networking.

There comes a time with every network that the refresh cycle kicks in. In the Wi-Fi space you’re in for a treat though – Wi-Fi 6E is here – and its blisteringly fast. In this blog, we’ll take a look at the key reasons you’ll want to be head of the queue to upgrade.

A lot is starting to be written about Cisco’s Catalyst 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.

There are distinct phases for a Wi-Fi Deployment all of which are reliant on each other to help structure and form a dependable and high performing network that consumers can rely on. In this blog, we'll take a look at the lifecycle of a Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) deployment.

When you're considering the mix of network management and fault finding applications, you need to consider how they'll all fit together. It's not a case of ThousandEyes vs Catalyst Center, but more how these two tools fit together they're both ones you'll want to have in your mix of network management and fault finding.

Cisco Spaces is a location aware, task management cloud-based application.

The Cisco MSP Partner Summit is the destination for Cisco partners to hear about the vision from Cisco on how they are planning to expand and grow their Managed Services propositions and market reach. As a Managed Services Cisco Gold Provider, it was a fantastic experience to be part of. I was also fortunate to be asked to be invited as a guest speaker[…]

Cisco's Catalyst Center is a management platform for the software defined networking era. Graphical management, guided fault finding, streaming telemetry and the ability to manage and deploy Software Defined Access (SD-Access) networks. It needs some experience to install and get the most from Catalyst Center though - and that's where the Catalyst[…]