Byron Magrane

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Here’s a question that has troubled physicians for years: how can a specialist, who is thousands of miles away, examine a patient accurately enough to come to a diagnosis?  Patients at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) are lucky that hospital administrators have come up with an answer: they rely on Cisco to […]

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Your mom and dad are on Facebook, your Grandma has a cell phone and your Uncle Oscar reads the morning paper on his tablet. If you haven’t noticed yet, it’s not just young people who are connected to their devices anymore. Erickson Living—one of the United State’s largest operators of continuing-care retirement communities—knows this fact […]

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Everyone has had the stressful experience of being in a large building and not knowing where they were. Try adding that uncertainty to a hospital visit and see how your blood pressure reacts when you finally find yourself in the doctor’s office. The 10-story, million-square-foot University Health System (UHS) Sky Tower in San Antonio, TX […]

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It’s no secret that public schools have needs that often go unfunded. So when a school district gets the opportunity to earmark funds for technology enhancements, they need to make sure they get the best.   After years of school budgets cuts, the Manteca Unified School District (MUSD) received a one-time gift from the state […]

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When Snam, an Italian gas company, needed to update its data centers why did it choose Cisco quipment—specifically Nexus switches—to do the job? Because the Nexus switches were the only platform to offer Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), which allowed virtual machines to be transferred without interrupting services. For Snam, non-interruption of services was an important […]

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There’s never an easy day in a hospital. When you have an IT infrastructure that is outdated and prone to breakdowns, a difficult job in the best circumstances can become a disheartened mess. Roper St. Francis (RSF) is one of South Carolina’s leading healthcare organizations and is in the top 10% of hospitals in the […]

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Cisco swept three product categories of IT Brand Pulse’s 2015 Data Center Infrastructure IT Brand Leader survey. Cisco took home the prizes in the WLAN Controllers and Access Points, Fiber Channel Network Monitoring and Network Performance Monitoring product categories. No other company in the survey placed in more than two product categories. For the third […]

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Ask anyone who’s witnessed a match; rugby is one of the toughest sports in the world. But, as the National Rugby League (NRL) of Australia recently found out: running a rugby league without a robust wireless network infrastructure can be even tougher. Recently the NRL, which is the top rugby league in Australia and New Zealand, […]

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Today schools have two primary goals: educating children and keeping them safe. For the largest coeducational, independent K-12 school on a single campus in the United States, that goal is doubly difficult because their campus spans 60 buildings over 77 acres. The large area coupled with the unique architecture—most campus buildings lack interior hallways and […]

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Wi-Fi Calling, or voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi), is a setting that many people are currently using on their mobile devices, though some may be surprised to know that they’re even using it. The basic idea of how VoWiFi works is: instead of making phone calls over a cellular network, mobile devices chose a wireless network when […]

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No matter what type of IT department you run, if you have numerous plants in over 20 states ranging from New Mexico to New York, you need to have a properly built network infrastructure. Anything less and you’re flirting with disaster. Due to the nature of its business—recycling restaurant grease and animal byproducts—the 25 processing […]

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Whether it’s to customers, resellers or industry leaders, there are some perceptions about Cisco that may make organizations with small to medium deployment feel having a high-quality Cisco solution is out of reach. With the recent release of Cisco Mobility Express, we can dispel some of these misconceptions or myths. Here’s a smattering of what […]

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re running the IT department for a small operation or a multi-national conglomerate; you’re going to share similar worries. Whether it’s securing your network or keeping it up-to-date, both large and small companies are feeling the effects of the growing need to support wireless devices and maybe more importantly the growing […]

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It’s hard enough being a department of two. Now imagine managing an out-of-date network infrastructure in an old, three-story building. And add two other older buildings running the same decrepit network and you have the scenario that was facing the two-man IT department of the City of Biel, Switzerland. The city’s network engineers turned to […]

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You know the differences between 802.11ac and 802.11n. You can explain how to install a wireless network until the digital cows come home. You even know the technical term for “the fear of phones”! How about taking all that knowledge and using it for something fun? Cisco is proud to present Mobility Motor Mania, an […]

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The network and phone system for the largest charitable funder of child health research in Canada—SickKids Foundation—was ailing. From dropped calls to poor voice quality to unexpected downtime, SickKids Foundation’s phone system was causing a lot of frustration among donors. SickKids Foundation depends on backers to fund their charity and employees realize that donor frustration […]

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As the world’s largest appliance maker, Whirlpool Corporation knows a thing or two about innovations. But the company recently looked at its factories’ mixed networking devices and realized that their backend infrastructure needed some innovating too. An unstable wireless network set-up was costing the company money, was difficult to troubleshoot and simply could not keep […]

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Morris (IL) Elementary School District 54 had a problem. The district had recently purchased and outfitted their students with 450 Chromebooks...

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When one of the oil and gas industry’s largest events needed a solution to save resources, time and money, they called Cisco. At the Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) conference, organizers wanted to find a way to eliminate the paper maps, guides and updates that needed to be printed for the over 90,000 attendees and 1,300 […]

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Understanding how quickly technology is growing year over year, Brunel University London looked to Cisco to enhance its bring your own...

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Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau understands that with the proliferation of wireless devices, learning is no longer relegated strictly to the classroom.  The German university wanted to equip its students with the ability to access their education resources anywhere and at any time. To provide this service, the University needed a secure environment for […]