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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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…
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Network Hardware Lifecycle – 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…
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Cisco Issues a “Critical” Security Advisory for their Nexus 9K Series ACI Mode Switches with a CVSS Score of 9.8
Per Cisco: “The vulnerability is due to the presence of a default SSH key pair that is present in all devices. An attacker…
