I took my Cisco CCIE around 18 years ago now, but like everyone who's attempted the lab, you don't forget it quickly! Passing the lab is no easy feat - there's a pre-qualification exam, followed by the lab itself. I've heard it said that 80% of people that start the CCIE journey never pass, so there's a reason it's right up there with the hardest[…]

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.

At IPTel, we're a Cisco Premier partner (one down from Gold). The Gold partners are the "big boys" in the market, but there's space for smaller, specialised partners - and that's where we come in. Being a partner, we get access to the Cisco Partner Summit, and in this blog, I'll lift the curtain a little on some of the themes from this year. Enjoy!

Aruba is a major player in the delivery of Wireless networks. Cisco and Aruba tend to dominate the delivery of enterprise Wi-Fi, so Aruba Certifications are a good bet to help advance your career. In wireless, there is the independent CWNA (and CWNP) certifications, as well as both Cisco and Aruba. The choice to go vendor neutral, or vendor specific is[…]

Armen Vardanian joined us in May 2019 as a senior consultant, and he’s been a great asset to the IPTel team. With a long history with new product innovation, Armen has been working with DNA Spaces, AiRISTA, CenTrak and other high granularity RTLS products.

At IPTel we are keen to bring you the best of technology, skills and up to date information from the Industry. We've put a series of presenters together to talk on subject of interest to our loyal blog readers. We're calling this our "Wi-Fi Presentation Series".

It's a wrap! The Cisco Partner awards and Cisco Live are complete for another year. It's a huge honour and privilege this year that IPTel Solutions have won the Project Delivery. IPTel have been awarded one of the Cisco partner awards - Project Delivery Excellence: Cisco Partner of the Year.