It’s a question that needs to be asked: when you’re looking to upgrade your network, why wouldn’t you immediately choose Cisco? For the second straight year, Cisco 802.11ac Wave 2 Access Points crushed their competitors in an independent test. Miercom, a nonpartisan testing lab, recently pit the Cisco Aironet 2800 and 3800 Access Points against […]
Spain’s University of León was slowly starting to fall behind the country’s other universities. The reason? An outdated wireless network was making it tough for communication and idea sharing. Both the teachers and the students were equally frustrated by the speed of the network and consequently it wasn’t being used much anymore. This is not […]
With life and death situations occurring nearly every hour, working in a hospital can be an extremely difficult business. How about working in a hospital with out-of-date WiFi infrastructure that routinely broke down once or twice a month? That’s almost impossible. This was the situation that was facing the United Kingdom’s Milton Keynes University Hospital […]
When it comes to a stroke, every second matters. Lee Memorial Hospital Systems (LMHS) located in North Fort Myers, Florida has taken that truism and has adapted it over their network of four acute care hospitals. With a goal of expanding stroke care services, LMHS needed to make sure that the hospitals and the physicians […]
People are much more susceptible to light than we imagine. For instance, tests have shown that natural light has a positive affect on people than staid, artificial light. The Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is putting that theory to the test and Cisco is helping them along the way. As the fourth-largest school district in […]
One of the best things about the Cisco initiative of “There’s Never Been a Better Time” is the way that businesses—and our world as a whole—are transforming for the better. With digitization, simple tasks that used to take a half hour are cut to just minutes. Allowing employees to work from home—and establish a better […]
When we talk about digitization and “There’s Never Been a Better Time”, the assumption is that we’re only talking about the future—and putting aside the past. That’s not true. The city of Biel, Switzerland has been settled for hundred of years, but they are getting in on digitization too. For older cities, this can be […]
Generally, museums are pretty large places with dozens of exhibits and thousands of pieces of artwork to view. The National History Museum (NHM) in London is no exception. When museum brass discovered that there was a way for their visitors to be connected and not miss the things that they most wanted to see, you […]
Growth is a part of any successful business. Unfortunately so are the pains that come with that expansion. Consider Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, healthcare system: Ochsner Health System. During the last 10 years, Ochsner Health System has exploded from one hospital to 28 owned and affiliated hospitals, 50 health centers, a fitness chain, hotel, retail […]
