Distributed the laptops? Check. Wireless mice? Check. Warm, snuggly pajamas with your company’s logo? Check. Your organization is ready for work from home. Except… you need to also extend your network to support this workforce. That’s where the real struggle is: where the hard-working IT professionals are having to support a massive influx of remote users, often without having the luxury of scaling out infrastructure or redesigning edge networks.

I want to outline a few suggestions that could help in these kinds of situations.

Cisco Meraki recently released a new switch — the MS390 — and while I normally don’t get excited about new switches, this one has some neat tricks up its sleeve. My CDW engineering colleagues and I were able to get our hands on some of these switches before their release and put them through their…

A lot of people have been talking recently about the upcoming IEEE wireless standard 802.11ax. If you haven’t already heard about this next generation of wireless, several vendors such as Aruba and Cisco have already published detailed white papers to help you through the details. With the standard expected to be finalized sometime in 2019,…

When it comes to setting up a Wi-Fi network, IT managers need to think density. In today’s K–12 school environments, IT teams have to deliver sufficient bandwidth coverage to handle 30 to 35 students in each classroom. For colleges and universities, that number goes up to 75 to 80 students. That same number could also hold…

As life becomes increasingly digital, the need for mobility keeps growing. As a result, businesses need more Wi-Fi, which in turn drives demand for greater network density and performance from the wired networks that support Wi-Fi access points (APs).