What is EIRP: EIRP vs Transmit Power

What power is your AP Transmitting at? With Cisco APs, we can see a power level, which is normally in the range of 1 - 8 (1-6 for some APs), but what is the actual dB power level the AP is transmitting at? This is a combination of a lot of factors - let's take a look.
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How does Cisco AI-Enhanced RRM Work

In essence, Cisco AI-Enhanced RRM is making use of the normal RRM features. These tools are essentially set to automatic mode, and AI-Enhanced RRM makes use of these to tune the network. Based upon the analysis of your anonymised data, AI-Enhanced RRM sends back instructions from the cloud to your Cisco DNA Center on how best to optimise these features.
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The Importance of Networking in Aged Care

Technology delivered in the aged care sector has a range of business outcomes to produce - not least to improve the lives residents and staff alike. The Royal Commission highlighted a range of improvements that need to occur in aged care - and ICT technology has a role to play in helping achieve this.
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Why too many SSIDS are bad for your Wi-Fi

Today's Wi-fi has become indispensable. Wi-Fi networks are expected to handle an increasing number of devices, and users, all while maintaining high performance and security. In this blog, we'll review how to use iPSK to consolidate the number of SSIDs - and clean up the Wi-Fi spectrum in the process.
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SSID Consolidation with iPSK

Many network administrators have ended up enabling more and more SSIDs to meet the needs of the business. This is bad news for Wi-Fi, with each SSID sending beacons and collectively, using precious bandwidth. iPSK is one option to help remediate.
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Meraki Site to Site VPN

Time Poor? You only need a minute to Set Up a Cisco Meraki Site-to-Site VPN. VPNs can be confusing and time consuming to setup. There's every chance of making a mistake and leaving your network with a security risk. Meraki AutoVPN is here to help.
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Wi-Fi Troubleshooting: Evidence for a Wi-Fi Review: Pt 2

Wi-Fi reviews are not the easiest of things. Unlike fault finding most networking, Wi-Fi has the added complexity of RF - and all those multitude of clients. In this blog, we'll take a measured run through on where to start in your fault finding journey.
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Managed Services FAQ - Part 2

Welcome to the second in a series of blogs centred around Managed Services and common Managed Services - Customer FAQ's. This blog expands on some of the topics we discussed in Part 1
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Managed Services FAQ - Part 1

IPTel offer Managed Services as part of our business solutions. When customers come to us, they often have similar questions regarding the level of support and the technicalities of what is covered as part of our Managed Service.
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Managed Services - Change Management

A core principle of being an effective Managed Service Provider is a well-managed Change Management system. Change Management is the process of tracking and managing a change throughout its entire life cycle, from start to closure, with the aim to minimize risk to a business.
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