Aruba has come out with a new, ultra-high-capacity wireless access point, the 340-series. It has two uplinks--2.5 GBPS and 1 GBPS--and if you use both of them together you can expect to see each access point support 150 simultaneous sessions and 256 connections. Or, it's getting to the point where it's hard to pack enough [...]
Cloud services have lots of allure--depend on someone else for the routine maintenance and management, sit back and enjoy the ride. So far this has worked well...people run their payroll, VoIP systems, CRM, conferencing, data storage and backup, security systems, and lots of 'heartbeat' applications on someone else's servers, in some unknown place. This all [...]
If you follow Software-Defined Networks (SDN) you know that one of the great future promises of SDN was the ability to abstract the network hardware from the overlying software. Buy any hardware you want; add the most apt operating system and then add an SDN console that suits you to implement security, access and usage [...]