This week I have been attending HPE Tech Jam in Orlando. For those who don’t know, this is HPE’s SE and Partner event full of technical training and keynotes. This year it was held at the Disney Dolphin and Swan Resort and convention center. Going in, I had no idea what to expect as this […]
Standards, we’re surrounded by them in our industry. Cabling standards like TIA586A/B tell us how to wire category 5/5e/6/6a (dang there’s another standard) for use in Ethernet (bam, another one). They help us ensure uniformity and compatibility in our industry. Without them, we would have balkanization and your Cisco network couldn’t talk to your Juniper […]
A few years ago as I was first cutting my teeth in the Palo Alto firewall world, I had a customer request something “unique” and I created a one-off solution. The request was to have a stand-alone portal that the end-users could go to and log in to gain additional access to resources. The reason […]
Traditionally, network engineers are used to having to manage the channel and power level for the access points in their environment. This has caused a long-standing debate between those that trust Radio Resource Monitoring (RRM) and those that insist on statically assigning these values. I’m generally on the side of trusting RRM, but that’s mainly […]
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