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Wireless LAN & Wired (Ethernet) LAN
There are different network infrastructures (wired LAN, Service Provider Networks) that allows mobility, but in a business environment, the most important is the wireless LAN (WLAN) . Most modern business networks rely on switch-based LANs for day-to-day...
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Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E with CenterFlex Technology
Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E with CenterFlex Technology-Secure, Flexible, Nonstop Communications. The Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series, including the new Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6-E, three new E-Series line cards, and four new E-Series...
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Cisco’s Nexus Switching Portfolio to Transform Your Data Centre
The data centre is the heart of the network, delivering business agility and promoting IT transformation. As your business evolves and you look towards new technologies and applications to grow, the data centre switching architecture that underpins the...
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One Platform Kit (onePK) for Developers
Cisco onePK, short for One Platform Kit, is an easy-to-use developer’s toolkit for innovation, automation, and service creation. onePK delivers the benefits of network programmability on Cisco routers and switches. onePK allows you to tie your network...
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10 Tips You Should Know about Cisco UCS
Cisco UCS is a model-driven server management system designed to reduce hardware and connectivity constraints, simplify server lifecycle management, and provide an agile infrastructure to support cloud computing. Based on a 10-Gigabit Ethernet-FCoE unified...
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What’s the Difference Between the 802.11ac & the 802.11n?
You're probably familiar with 802.11a/b/g/n, all of which are protocols for the 802.11 wireless networking standards. You can safely bet that any device with Wi-Fi connectivity, from your laptop to your smartphone, supports at least wireless B or G, and...
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How to Set up Cisco 7937G IP Phone?
The Cisco 7937 IP Phone is a conference room phone that offers superior wideband voice and microphone quality, with simplified wiring and administrative cost benefits. A full-featured, IP-based, hands-free conference station, the new Cisco Unified IP...
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How to Configure Cisco IP Phones?
How to configure a Cisco 7960 IP Phone? Here a full guide may help you step by step. Click the “Settings” button. Use the scrolling arrows in the center to go down to the last selection, which is “Unlock Config” and press select. The screen will then...
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Introducing The New Cisco ISR 4451-X Router
The New Cisco ISR 4451-X Router ---ENABLING THE ULTIMATE APPLICATION EXPERIENCE Cisco Integrated Services Routers (ISRs) are built on 30 years of our innovation and product leadership. The Cisco 4451-X Integrated Services Router revolutionizes the delivery...
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Cisco Accelerates SDN Strategy with Dynamic Fabric Automation
Note: The original version of this article indicated that VXLAN was used for tunneling. As per Cisco's remarks in the comments section, Cisco is using a proprietary tagging encapsulation protocol. The article has been updated for accuracy and to express...
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Cisco Refreshes Campus Switching, Including Catalyst 6800 Core Chassis
Cisco unveiled a refresh of its campus switching and enterprise routing products at Cisco Live this week, highlighted by the Catalyst 6800 series, a big brother to the Catalyst 6500 that is compatible with the older switch's existing supervisor modules...
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Cisco Catalyst 4948E Ethernet Switch for High-Performance Data Center Accesss
Cisco Catalyst 4900 Series Switches deliver high-performance, low-latency wire-speed Layer 2 and 3 services in a small form factor (1 or 2 rack units). The 4900 Series is ideal for space-constrained deployments. The Cisco Catalyst 4948E offers forty-eight...
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Cisco Unveils pxGrid For Identity, Device Context Awareness with Cisco ISE
Cisco is introducing a new framework for sharing context-aware information to a variety of third-party security providers. The networking giant said it will use pxGrid to make Cisco ISE the central repository for context-aware security architecture via...
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Cisco Plans to Double the Speed of the Internet
Cisco is introducing a new router that will be able to handle the dramatic increase in demand for Internet downloads. If Internet traffic is going to triple over the next five years, as Cisco predicts, we're gonna need a bigger boat. On Wednesday, Cisco...
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Mobility Without Complexity: Four Tips to Prepare Your LAN for 802.11n
Businesses have long recognized the benefits of wireless networking: flexible network connectivity, improved productivity, and lowered cabling costs. As the demand for reliable and predicable wireless support for time-sensitive applications (such as video...
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Cisco Betters Its Catalyst 2000 Line
Most popular Cisco Catalyst 2000 line extended with 2960-X, which doubles stack ports and bandwidth, cuts energy use Cisco this week upgraded its best-selling Catalyst switch by doubling its stacked port density, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU performance....
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Cisco 887VA Router Overview & Its USB
The Cisco 887VA is quite a capable unit, and you can see some of the specs as follows: Cisco 887VA Integrated Services Router-Integrate Access and Security New Cisco 887VA Routers support DSL multimode, including very-high-speed DSL 2 (VDSL2) and asymmetric...
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Cisco ASA 5505 DMZ with Private VLAN Configuration
The ASA 5505 is the only model that has an 8-port switch embedded in the device. All interfaces of the ASA5505 are Layer2 switch ports and thus they support some features that you can find on Cisco switches. One of these features is called “Private Vlan”....
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IPv6 OSPF/v3: Case Study
This document is an illustration of Stub, Totally Stub and NSSA area feature in an IPv6 environment. Stub, NSSA, and totally stubby are supported and configured in the exact same way as for OSPFv2 for IPv4, using the area stub, area nssa, and area stub...
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OSPF Neighborship Troubleshooting
When setting up dynamic routing protocols, there are certainly a number of things that need to be configured correctly for everything to end up working as planned. On top of this, each of the different routing protocols has different elements that they...
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How to Configure AAA Authentication on Cisco ASA Firewall
AAA stands for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting. AAA is a mechanism that is used to tell the firewall appliance who the user is (Authentication), what actions the user is authorized to perform on the network (Authorization), and what the...
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Cisco Gets Tough: Details Ruggedized Switches for Harsh Environments
In small form factor, CGS-1000 switch is low-latency and designed for utilities Cisco, which wants to expand its clout into the industrial networks used by power-generation utilities to support the electric grid, today announced an expansion of its "smart...
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Cisco Ports Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch to Microsoft's Hyper-V
Hooks UCS servers into Systems Center, fast-tracks Windows infrastructure clouds Upstart server-maker Cisco is bounding around the Microsoft Management Summit this week in Las Vegas to talk about how it is plugging its technologies into Redmond's cloud...
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Configuring NAT on Cisco ASA
Network address translation (NAT) allows you to translate private to public addresses. With CISCO ASA firewall, You can configure 2 types of NAT: - Dynamic NAT (including PAT - port address translation) - Static NAT Nat example (Web server must send responses...
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Cisco Branch Router Series Platform
Small Branch Office Cisco ISR 1941W Platform To simulate a small branch office, the Cisco ISR 1941W was configured as a branch router serving a dozen employees. Primary network connectivity was established via a public internet connection with a DMVPN...