The routers and switches on a network have been described as the plumbing—hopefully just sitting behind the scenes working. These weren’t the items that got much attention like security breaches, growing your infrastructure, or backing up your storage. This makes sense, as you would just add a switch when you needed more ports; change a…
One of the recent trends of wireless that most affects how we design networks is how many devices are connecting to the network. It used to be wireless was mostly used by guests. Organizations didn’t want guest users to plug into an Ethernet port on their network for various reasons. To accommodate those users, wireless…
When I talk to customers about the network challenges they are experiencing, they will inevitably start with how much more time it takes to access their files after the company has moved to a virtualized infrastructure or has implemented replication between data centers. They follow that up by telling me that after reporting it to…
