How to Buy/Choose a Wireless Router for Your Home or Small-business Network?
It’s a common thing to a wireless router or wireless AP for your home or small-business network. But choosing the right wireless router can go a long way towards having…
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Cisco XFP vs. SFP vs. SFP+
What’s the key difference among the Cisco XFP, SFP and SFP+? SFP, SFP+ and XFP, all refer to a type of transceiver that is plugged into a special port on…
Cisco SFP vs. GBIC vs. XEP vs. SFP Plus
‘What is the difference between a SFP and GBIC? I’m looking buying a card for a 4506 chassis. All Fibre ports and I need Gig Speeds. There are cards that…
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…
Three Cisco Nexus 9300 Models Overview
Cisco Nexus 9300 Series, the fixed-port switch, is one of the Nexus 9000 Series switches. It was designed for top-of-rack (ToR) and middle-of-row (MoR) deployment in data centers that support…
How to Start up a Cisco IP Phone?
How to start up a Cisco IP Phone? It’s not too difficult to handle it. In the following part we will share the main steps and tips while starting up…
The 8-slot Nexus 9508 Switch Review
As one of the Cisco Nexus 9500 modular switches, the 8-slot Nexus 9508 switch is the first available platform in the family that will be followed by the 4-slot and…
Cisco 9500 Nexus Switch Overview-Model Comparison
Cisco Nexus 9500 modular switch is the member of Cisco Nexus 9000 product family. The Cisco Nexus 9500 switching platform includes three modular options: the Cisco Nexus 9504 Switch with…
Cisco Nexus 9000 Models Comparison: Nexus 9500 & Nexus 9300 Series
The Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches include both modular (Nexus 9500 switches) and fixed-port switches (Nexus 9300 switches). The Cisco Nexus 9000 switches are the next generation of data center…
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Overview
Designed to meet both current and emerging needs for multiple stages of network transformation, the Cisco Nexus 9000 product family includes both modular (Nexus 9500 switches) and fixed-port switches (Nexus…
Cisco SEC-K9 License vs. HSEC-K9 License
The Cisco licenses play an important role in Cisco hardware upgrading, the HSEC-K9 license and the SEC-K9 license, the two Cisco license are designed for Cisco ISR G2 routers. Both…
Cisco 800 Series Licensing Options
As we know the Cisco 800 Series routers have been announced end of life and end of sale, but some of Cisco 800 models are still popular in the market,…
EoL & EoS Announcement for the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E
Recently, Cisco announced the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Supervisor Engine 6L-E in the last month. The last day to order the affected products of Cisco…
New Cisco CCNP Routing & Switching 2014
Cisco announced major revisions to the Cisco CCNP (Certified Network Professional) Routing and Switching certification at the end of July. All three courses: Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE), Implementing Cisco IP…
How to Recover Password on Cisco IOS Router?
For people who are doing some labs forgot the password they set for enable mode…perhaps someone was working on the router before and the following one has no idea what…
A Sample VSS Configuration for 2x Cisco Cat6500 with Supervisor 720
The Virtual Switching System (VSS) allows two Cisco Catalyst 6500 or 4500 chassis to bond together so that is seen as a single virtual switch to the rest of the…
Cisco Licenses on Cisco ISR G2
When do you need to buy a license for your Cisco router? Some people may be not clear about the Cisco licensing. So in this article we will talk about…
VSS on Cisco 4500/4500X Switches
The VSS–Cisco Virtual Switching System is a clustering technology that pools two Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series Switches with Cisco Catalyst Supervisor Engine 7-E or 7-LE or two Catalyst 4500-X Series…
Cisco 4500 VSS Requirement-Software, Hardware and Licensing
VSS (Virtual Switching System) is a method to combine two physical switches into one logical switch to achieve physical redundancy, Spanning-Tree blocking elimination, and increased bandwidth. VSS was first available…
Cisco IOS XE Version and IOS Version
How much do you know about Cisco software for its hardware? There are main four types of Cisco software: IOS, XE, XR, and NX-OS. In this article, we will…
IOS XE Upgrade in Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch
The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch uses Cisco IOS XE Software. Cisco IOS XE Software is delivered as a bundle that contains a set of packages. You can boot and run…
Cisco 2960-S Series Stacking
It’s not a complicated task to stack a Cisco 2960S or 3750 series, which didn’t require a network professional to configure the switches. All the network professional needed to do…
