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What is Cisco SMARTnet Alternative Maintenance and Support

Cisco server maintenance, in addition to SmartNet services, is a reliable way of protecting your data and IT support. These are award-winning and robust services that allow access to all kinds of support for different networks right at your...

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Fighting Consumerism in the Network

Each year, editors of Britain’s Collins Dictionary select a word of the year; the one word that they believe best epitomizes the global trends and...

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Used Network Equipment

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Used Network Equipment – How Can Network Managers Benefit?

Decisions, especially regarding network equipment purchases, are rarely cut and dried. Aside from the belief that Moore’s law will continue to drive...

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Concept of important decision making for business people

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What’s Driving Your Network Equipment Purchases?

Whether it’s network equipment, pickup trucks or toothpaste, the new product adoption curve remains nearly unchanged. Statistically speaking, about...

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Conceptual image of micro circuit - Security vulnerability

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DNA and SD WAN Critical Security Vulnerability Notice

A new security vulnerability pushed Cisco to urge enterprise administrators to install critical security updates. As always, a SMARTnet contract is...

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Tariff Update on China's Imports

May 10, 2019 Tariff increase to 25% scheduled to impact switching and routing hardware, as well as phones. Costs to end-users on products...

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Licenses Concept. Word on Folder Register of Card Index. Selective Focus.

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Cisco’s New Smart Licensing

Simplifying the Cisco Software Experience I guess the biggest question that I have is for who? Is the software experience being simplified for Cisco?...

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Engineer optimizing network hardware

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Network Hardware - How to Manage to Prevent Waste

Thomas Edison put it this way, “Waste is worse than loss …. Every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him...

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Cisco Cybersecurity

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Cisco Issues a “Critical” Security Advisory for their Nexus 9K Series

Per Cisco: “The vulnerability is due to the presence of a default SSH key pair that is present in all devices. An attacker could exploit this...

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