Every network team has the same fear: when a critical network platform goes down, will the backup actually work? In most environments, backups are treated as a checkbox – something that “should” work, but isn’t truly validated until it’s too late. Cisco ISE, Catalyst Center, FMC, CUCM, and other Cisco platforms are too important to gamble on.

It's the worst nightmare of any network administrator: a major component of your network fails and you don't have a backup. Cisco ISE and Catalyst Center are critical for any network - having backups that are easy to restore when disaster strikes is key: Backup Assure is the answer.

In this previous blog, we discussed the Cisco CURWB architecture, where Cisco CURWB required a dedicated infrastructure using devices like the IW9167 and IW9167-APs. The good news is that Cisco has now introduced a unified solution: Cisco wireless can now support both Wi-Fi and Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul on a single hardware platform, bringing[…]

Healthcare is a very fast moving industry. It has to be - there's constant new innovation as research brings through new and exciting developments. The way in which digital healthcare is likely to evolve over the next five years is difficult to predict. This blog will walk though some key ideas, as some useful discussion points.

Wireless (or Wi-Fi as we all call it) is ubiquitous. It's everywhere - we consume Wi-Fi at home, at the office and with guest services when we're out and about. The need to provide Wi-Fi is clear. How you fund that Wi-Fi install is a different question. Would it be useful to be able to lease your Wi-Fi installation? An evergreen model of support and[…]

FREE eBook Download: Top 8 Secrets to Great Wi-Fi We all love Wi-Fi these days – whether at work, travelling or just at home with Netflix. Wi-Fi has become both ubiquitous and something we truly rely on for our day-to-day work; it’s become business critical for many companies.

In this blog, we’ll explore some of the equipment we use for a pre-deployment survey. This is typically the second stage of an RF design - the predictive survey first and the pre-deployment survey second.

Wi-Fi in all its forms relies on good signal propagation. Signals are attenuated by various objects - it's not that well known, but trees are a particularly attenuating object - let's take a look!

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.

There are three main components to a Wi-Fi Access Point, each of which are critical to its function: Radio Antenna The CPU There are many different ways to split the three components above, but every Wi-Fi solution has all three components.