The Edge
Welcome to The Edge. This is where we share news, tips and insights from across the IT industry. With each post, we’re educating our customers on the potential of their networks.
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Are You Prepared for a One-year Pause?
It may sound like an exaggeration, but Cisco 9200Ls were quoted to a client at 434 days lead time this week. That’s Easter…
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PANIC at the Cisco!
Unfortunately, high hopes won’t get you very far if you’re trying to purchase and install new Cisco before year end. Lead times continue…
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Is Buying The Latest Technology worth it?
I’ll admit, I like the idea of having the latest and greatest technology. It’s kind of fun to have the shiny new toy.…
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How To Optimize Your Data Center Hardware With Pre-Owned Equipment?
Defining Data Center To put it simply, a data center is a physical facility where organizations house their critical data. It is designed…
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What Is The Difference Between Cisco Nexus And Catalyst?
Amongst the array of switches are the Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches that are the most popular. While Nexus switches are a flexible…
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How To Configure Cisco Catalyst 9300 Switch?
Cisco primarily offers two types of network switches, one of which is the Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch, a fixed-configuration model. This type does…
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What is Cisco Smart Alternative Maintenance and Support
What Is Cisco Smart Alternative? Imagine you have Cisco switches, and one fine day the manufacturer considers them end-of-life (EOL), discontinuing the product…
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Fighting Consumerism in the Network
From straws and water bottles to plastic bags and roughly one of third of the food produced ends up in landfills, the ocean…
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Pre-Owned Equipment – How Can Network Managers Benefit
People in general, and engineers specifically, are drawn to new toys. I always have been, which is how I ended up in technology.…
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What’s Driving Your Network Equipment Purchases?
Graphically, this is known as the Rogers innovation adoption curve, named for Everett Rogers, a communications and sociology professor who first proposed the…
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DNA and SD WAN Critical Security Vulnerability Notice
CVE-2019-1848 is a Cisco DNA Center authentication bypass vulnerability. Due to insufficient access restriction to the ports necessary for system operation, an attacker…
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Tariff Update
Costs to end-users on products manufactured in and imported from China are sure to increase, but OEMs have not yet committed to a…
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Cisco’s New Smart Licensing
Since taking the helm, CEO Chuck Robbins has focused on subscriptions and recurring revenue, a much more lucrative model than a one time…
