At CES 2011, Cisco Systems came out with several new announcements. One of the biggest announcement that was co-introduced by Verizon wireless was a new 4G wireless WAN interface for Cisco ISR G2 routers. The new card can be installed in a router and use Verizon’s new LTE network for access. If the 4G signal
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Cisco has been pushing Telepresence to large corporate customers for years. The full-blown Telepresence solution costs several hundred thousand dollars per-site and requires the room to go through a complete “Cisco makeover” so it feels more like you are taking to someone sitting on the other side of the table rather than looking at someone
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Cisco Systems and Jawbone will team up to create hands-free wireless headsets that can transparently move from mobile devices to Cisco IP phones. This is a very small but cool feature for those of us that have Cisco IP phones and like to use Bluetooth headsets for both our mobile and desk phones.
Both Cisco and Avaya have recently unveiled flat-screen tablet devices to be used in enterprise environments. The problem is that the cost of the tablets are considerably higher than consumer based tablets that run the same Android operating system. Competing consumer devices that also run Android include the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Tab as well
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When you think technology, you might not think of Cambodia. But this might very well change in the future. I had the opportunity to visit several cities within Cambodia last week. Being a network engineer and interested in technology advancements in emerging countries, I decided to spend some time investigating the current economic and technological
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There are many companies and other means of acquiring used and refurbished Cisco equipment on the Internet. These include highly regarded businesses that buy up used gear, inspect and test it, then resell it. Often times, this used gear can include extended warranties in case of failure. Other methods of buying used equipment are from auction sites such as Ebay or online classified ads a la craigslist. I have used all of these methods for acquiring Cisco Systems equipment. Here are three situations where I felt purchasing used Cisco equipment was justifiable.
That means that the cost savings built-in to a 3G to 4G upgrade are non-existent and this is where WiMAX shines. Starting from ground zero, WiMAX is much less expensive to deploy compared to LTE. Fewer WiMAX towers need to be built and the equipment on average is less expensive. That means that service providers that do not have 3G deployed can much more cost-effectively deploy a 4G network. So look for countries such as Thailand to keep WiMAX alive for years to come.
I was working for a firm in Chicago a few years ago when we had two Cisco Supervisor modules on separate Catalyst 6500 series switches die in the same night. The hardware was located in two different locations with completely different power sources. Knowing the failure rate of this equipment, having two failures in one night is very rare. After a lengthy investigation by the Cisco technical assistance team, it was determined that the failures were due to a similar solar flare that hit our site with cosmic radiation.
When I first came to Thailand, one thing I had to really get used to is the lack of reading paper books. There are many bookstores but few have a large selection of English print titles. Back home in the States, I had a fairly large library of technical books…mostly Cisco Press and Sybex books on networking. My fiction reading was mostly quenched by going to a Barnes & Noble or Boarders book store…or to the Chicago Public library off of State and Congress when I lived there.
Now I have just a handful of paper books and the bookstores/libraries here are limited as to any English language books. Fortunately, we live in a digital media age where most books can be found online either for free, for a fee per-book or through a book club membership where you can “checkout” virtual books for a monthly fee.
Thin client to run a full-blown OS when docked at the office. That means that the Tablet could potientially be the one and only tool that someone needs to perform all of their daily tasks.
In my last post, I talked about my wireless provider in Thailand, AIS. AIS has a very good blanket of 2G Edge across the country…and even over the boarder into Burma, Laos and Cambodia from my experience. I’ve used the data plan for checking email and light browsing. I also have used it to upload
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This week is the start of Cisco’s largest IT and communications conference where network engineers from all over the world gather in Las Vegas (this year) to receive training from Cisco as well as to talk to other engineers about news, trends and technology.
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