Cisco Systems is a company that puts its customers first. The leaders are primarily concerned with measuring and controlling the success and strength of relationships with customers. Cisco has created the “Code of Business Conduct”, which is an outline of the ethical standards held by Cisco Systems. “Operating with a strong sense of integrity is ...
Before VLANs, each network connection required a separate corresponding physical connection, so using VLAN trunks reduces networking costs by reducing the need for expensive phycial connections and conserving the number of ports used on switches and servers. The trunk connection can be passed between two switches or between a switch and a computer. Configuring VLAN ...
Ask any IT veteran or hiring manager and you are likely to run into strong opinions in opposing directions, but who’s advice can you rely on? Generally speaking, those who believe that certifications are not worth it, typically make the case that they are not a reliable indicator of content mastery. Paul Murphy, a writer ...
The two essential elements to a clean, consistent and fast wireless home internet network are 1) A reliable and fast internet service. No equipment will compensate for a poor quality service. An internet service that is slow and/or unreliable when delivered to the internet enabled devices (computers, TVs, gaming devices, printers, etc.) via a hard ...
Surprisingly, most of the world’s routers and switches are controlled and configured by an old and insecure protocol, Telnet. But the problem with Telnet is that it flies across the computer network unencrypted. And that makes it simple for even an inexperienced hacker to steal the passwords and control the network equipment. After they take ...
Switches make network troubleshooting a bit more difficult because not all traffic is sent to every port like in an older network hub. Switching traffic improves speed because bandwidth is reserved only for connections on that port and security is generally better because it takes more than a simple freeware network sniffer like Wireshark to ...
iTunes’ little secret is that it knows PDFs. You can apply of all of the great tagging, searching and sorting features that make iTunes the best music organizing program to keeping your PDFs in order. Apple offers digital booklets and liner notes in PDF format with the purchase of some albums from the iTunes store, ...