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It’s Here! Mark Your Calendars to See Cisco’s Latest Innovations at Retail’s Big Show

Mark your calendars to attend Cisco’s Big Ideas Sessions in Room 3D04, EXPO Hall, Level 3: Monday 1/14 @ 9:15 AM:  “Catch and Keep” the Digital Shopper — How to Deliver Retail Their Way Tuesday 1/15 @ 9:15 AM:  Engage and Entice Your Customers with New Wi-Fi Solutions <–Featuring Bob Friday! Tuesday 1/15 @ 1:15 PM:  Digital Malls: The Next Generation […]

January 14, 2013 • 1 min read
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If You Got A Controller DownTime Problem Yo I’ll Solve It…with Stateful SwitchOver

Do you have to deal with re-authentication when your wireless internet connection drops? Isn’t it annoying when you have to deal with minutes seconds of failover? You may be suffering from downtime resulting from your primary controller going down. Symptoms include: network downtime, poor quality of experience for users, and major headache for IT. This […]

January 22, 2013 • 1 min read
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I Got 99 Problems But Application Visibility Ain’t One

Do you have trouble viewing, controlling, and troubleshooting the causes of poor end-user application experience? You may be suffering from low application visibility in your network, a side-effect of the flood of devices pouring into your workplace, the phenomenon commonly known as BYOD. Symptoms include: difficulty prioritizing mission-critical applications and subflows, incorrect network capacity planning, […]

January 9, 2013 • 1 min read
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Bowdoin College Takes Crown for Connected College Champion

U.S. News & World Report debuted their Most Connected Colleges ranking this year, honoring the schools that best leverage technology to improve the connections between students and educators. The inaugural ranking’s first place went to Bowdoin College, a private liberal arts College located in Maine. Amazingly, they beat out traditionally techie schools CMU (#10) and […]

November 28, 2012 • 2 min read
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[Poll] What’s YOUR Black Friday Shopping Companion of Choice?

If you’re in the United States, you’ll know Thanksgiving means two things: turkey and therapy (as in retail therapy). As one of our more shameless displays of mass consumerism, Black Friday brings to light the not-so-new fact that shopping and consumers are undeniably married to the megatrend of consumerization. Deloitte declared in its Annual Holiday […]

November 21, 2012 • 1 min read
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You Can’t Wait for Connected Mobile Experiences

Ten billion. That’s the estimated number of connected devices by 2016. That’s more than the whole world population today. According to data from the Cisco Visual Networking Index, mobile connection speeds and data use are anticipated to rise with this influx of smartphones, tablets and laptop computers. Mobile device users are increasingly always on, always […]

November 15, 2012 • 1 min read