Stacking multiple Switches has its advantages but often it is only possible to combine/ stack switches that are physically located within a few meters. A proprietary technology called Virtual Chassis...
There are basically two types of technologies that are popular with storage systems – File level storage which are popular with NAS Systems & Block level storage which are popular...
VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) provides fail-over/ redundancy for critical gateway network components like Routers, L3 Switches, Firewalls/UTM’s, etc. VRRP eliminates single point of failure at the gateway level and...
There was an interesting article today in Computerworld titled, “Rice demonstrates full duplex wireless technology” and a small snippet from there is given below: “Full duplex technology would allow a...
Adding more bandwidth is not always the option to solve network bottlenecks. There are other factors you need to consider like latency, jitter, packet loss, congestion, buffer overflow, etc that...
95th Percentile is a method used by ISP’s and Data Centers to provide a burstable and flexible bandwidth (Internet) access to companies over and above their contracted bandwidth rates for...
Like how you can use an IP Phone/ ATA to make inexpensive long distance calls from your home using a VOIP Service, SIP Trunks enable the users in an organization...
While larger companies opt for Internet Leased Lines, smaller companies cannot always afford them and hence they might want to go with Broadband. While broadband is a good option, it...
One of the advantages of implementing a Private Cloud in your organization, is the possibility to build a solid Disaster Recovery strategy using Public Cloud infrastructure. Read on, to find...
In this article, let us first look at an example of what happens when two computers – CP1 & CP2 try to communicate with each other and through this example,...
WAN Virtualization is perhaps the next step to WAN link load balancing. Perhaps, some of the features mentioned here might be implemented by Application Delivery Controllers as well, but the...
Intelligent Video Analytics, Video Content Analytics or Video Analytics refer to the intelligent capture and analysis of video footage and it enables the Video Surveillance system to initiate further actions...
Well, looks like every device in the Data Center wants to be virtualized! So, the Application Delivery Controllers have also joined this trend. It is possible to sub-divide a large...
What is UPoE (Universal Power over Ethernet)? Power over Ethernet is a commonly used technology for powering IP phones, Access Points, IP Cameras, etc using just the data cables. So,...