Centralizing your WAN architecture is a cornerstone of the strategy for capturing SIP Trunk savings. Cisco says: Keeping a distributed network may be the way to go. The consensus out of the SIP ...

I recently acquired a rack mountable switch (non-Cisco, only for the price advantage). The main reason was to consolidate the wiring in a 42U rack full of servers. The wires coming out of the rack was ...

I know how to make a trunk between a Linux machine and a single Cisco switch so that if one of the network cards or cables fails the link is still available. However, I have a bladesystem that has ...

Gigabit Ethernet switch/routers offer blazing performance in basic configurations, but enabling a feature called link aggregation causes some devices’ throughput to tank, latency to leap, failover to ...

Virtual LANs (VLANs) allow the segmentation of a physical network into multiple logical networks. VLAN trunking is the process of transporting multiple VLANs over a single network link—typically ...

Phil Edholm, Nortel enterprise CTO has posted his take on Cisco’s upgrade last month to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 that improves the product’s ability to support real-time enterprise communication and ...

While we’ve focused lately on product rollouts and trade shows, Steve and the folks at Webtorials have been busy sharing some great material our readers may find useful including two vendor-sponsored ...

Eight SIP trunking companies received the highest recognition, four stars, in the Eastern Management Group 2020 customer satisfaction survey. They are: 8x8, Bandwidth, BroadSoft (now Cisco), Flowroute ...