Cisco AI Analytics in Operation

Cisco Artificial Intelligence allows for deep learning to take place on your network. What does that buy you? This means that rather than just having threshold alarms (that keep generating alarms on every issue), you can intelligently decide when to alert - based on the normal network baseline. This cuts down false alarms and let's you focus on real[…]
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Wi-Fi Design: Increasing Access Point Density

One of the most common issues we see when fixing up poor performing Wi-Fi networks, is lack of APs. Sufficient AP density and placement are the basics of proper Wi-Fi RF Design.
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Cisco SD-Access Lab

We have invested quite heavily in training and ensuring we're ready to roll out Cisco SDA Fabric deployments at scale. One of the big ticket items on this journey is to have a full fabric lab. We've built this lab and ready to share with our customer base.
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Meraki Managed Service

Meraki is a great fit for Managed Services providers. Meraki offers a common dashboard of the environment and the ability to manage all customers networks from one pane of glass, while keeping these securely separated. In this blog, we'll take a look at the Meraki Managed Service offering.
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Top Retail Warehouse Technologies

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.
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Travels in Silicon Valley - facebook and Google

I paid homage to the tech companies in Silicon Valley while on holiday (geeky I know). Having worked with Cisco technologies for over twenty five years now, I just wanted to take a look at the Cisco campus and see for myself what it looked like - might as well throw in a few other tech companies while I was at it, I thought.
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Top 5 Retail Challenges

Retail has always been a difficult business, with customers quick to vote with their feet. Retailers are always looking for innovation to help improve their business outlook and customer experience. In this blog, I'll provide a summary of some of the top challenges that retailers face - and how technology can assist in delivering better outcomes.
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Top Challenges for University CIOs

There is no doubt that for the average CIO of a University that there are some major challenges to take a look at. Concentrating your time and effort to where its most needed is of course sensible and brings the most reward. The question is – what are those challenges?
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Meraki Cloud Wi-Fi

Cisco Meraki is a Cloud based networking technology. Wi-Fi is one aspect in the product set, but it also includes cameras, switching and security appliances. In this blog, we'll take a look at some of the advantages offered by the Meraki platform.
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How to Decrypt PSK Packets Captured with Wireshark

During fault finding with WLAN networks, there comes a point where you just have to take it down to the lowest level. Sometimes it is because you have a bug and you need to see the exact behaviour of devices in the network, in order to work out where the issue lies.
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