Move to 40G Today? Yes!

Tomorrow’s Data Center Network: Technologies such as virtualization, big data, cloud, mobility, and distributed applications are enabling the data center to support priorities like never before, making data center network performance and capacity more relevant than ever. Take steps today…
10GBASE-T or SFP Plus

If I want to migrate our Data Center to 10G and I face the first problem: 10GBASE-T or SFP+. I understand this decision will affect to switches, servers and SAN (iscsi) and their interoperability, right? My first step is to…
Cisco ACI, What is It?

As software defined networking becomes more popular and even necessary, Cisco ACI changes the way we’ve traditionally thought about networking. Traditional networking uses an imperative model which basically means we control what the network devices do. We give them commands…
LANs vs. WANs

We divided the networks into two types: Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN). The two networks are generally classified on the basis of their coverage area. Typically, a local area network exists in a house or a…
ASA Routed vs. Transparent

In what scenario would you use an ASA in transparent mode? Transparent mode is defined as both inside and outside interfaces are in the same subnet, but different VLAN’s…. Uh huh, let’s say that you and I have a customer…
VLAN vs. Subnet

“What is the difference between a subnet and a vlan? How does a subnet and vlan work differently from each other?” “While going through the CCNP switch book of CISCO, I encountered this statement “The switch port supports one VLAN,…
Nexus 9000 vs. Nexus 7000

Cisco’s some customers care about the future of their existing investments in Cisco’s data center switches when Cisco introduced its new series of data center switches as part of its SDN-flavored Application Centric Infrastructure. Cisco launched the Nexus 9000 series…
Cisco Unified Access Review

We know that Cisco Unified Access intelligently connects people, processes, data, and things from vision to reality. It simplifies the connected world and meets today’s IT needs. Cisco Unified Access provides IT with the platform it needs to adapt to…