Miercom

June 7, 2017

NETWORKING

Miercom Report: Secured Network Infrastructure

3 min read

Recently, the independent testing lab Miercom pitted Cisco against HPE/Aruba in a test to see who had the best level of visibility to provide stronger securiry. Spoiler alert: it was Cisco!

March 16, 2016

DATA CENTER

Moving to Cloud? Intelligent Buffer Matters!

2 min read

Craig Huitema and Soni Jiandani blogged  about Cisco’s latest ASIC innovations for the Nexus 9K platforms and IDC did a

July 31, 2015

NETWORKING

Miercom Agrees: Cisco Controllers with Dynamic Bandwidth Selection are the Tops

3 min read

Cisco recently introduced another addition to its Radio Resource Management (RRM) algorithm – Dynamic Bandwidth Selection (DBS). Previously, controllers only had the ability to automatically assign channels and power levels, while the AP channel widths were manually assigned for each AP Group. A choice of 20MHz, 40MHz, or 80MHz channel widths were offered within the […]

April 10, 2015

NETWORKING

Converged Access now available on Catalyst 4500E!

2 min read

Catalyst 4500E Supervisor 8-E now supports Converged Access with the IOS XE 3.7 release. The Supervisor 8-E is the latest generation high performance supervisor for Catalyst4500E and provides cutting edge features such as Service Discovery Gateway and support for SDN Openflow in addition to Converged Access and industry leading scale and performance. Miercom recently tested […]

January 8, 2015

NETWORKING

Outdoor 802.11ac AP Performance Report by Miercom

4 min read

The brisk inflation of 802.11ac in the Wi-Fi industry is evident from the large stream of wireless products entering the market with a stamp of the latest IEEE wireless standard. With that said, the Outdoor Wi-Fi Market is certainly not staying behind to join the 802.11ac bandwagon either. Cisco recently launched industry’s first 4×4, three […]

January 5, 2015

NETWORKING

Miercom Report: High Availability and Real-time Applications

2 min read

The transition to 802.11ac has been swift.  Two months ago, Cisco announced crossing 1 million units sold for 802.11ac. ...

October 6, 2014

DATA CENTER

Miercom Performance Verified – Cisco Nexus 7700 Delivers Industry’s Highest 100Gbps Scalability, Performance and …

3 min read

This will probably date me, but when I started in telecommunications a few years back, 10-Mbps thin-net Ethernet was the cool new technology. I used to think, “Who would ever need that much bandwidth?” Since then, IT technology has changed dramatically, with applications continually demanding more and more bandwidth. Ethernet switching capacity has advanced by […]

February 21, 2014

NETWORKING

All 802.11ac Vendors are the same…Right?

1 min read

If you are an Enterprise IT Manager, this is a question that you must ask yourself if you are considering deploying 802.11ac for your enterprise wireless network. 802.11ac has some...