T1 Tyranny – Like Having Money to Burn

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T1 connections are expensive. There’s no way around that fact. And maybe what the Telcos charge for a T1 line isn’t precisely, tyranny, but if you’re writing the check to pay for it each month it sure might seem that way. But hey you have a choice. That Choice Has Two Parts Before we look [...]

IT Matters-Making Business IT Work

The simple title states it all. It’s not news, particularly since the dashed hopes of the post dot.com era and now with the lingering recession that started circa 2008 that many businesses have questioned how to derive the best value from their investment in information technology. One of my primary purposes will be to explore [...]

Cisco for Small Business – An Example Network Case Study

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This article is part 2 of a 2 part series: Part 1 is at Why Is Cisco Equipment a Smart Investment for Small Businesses? Moving from the broad over view covered in Part 1 lets now move into demonstrating some of the direct benefits of the more commonly implemented features of Cisco router and switches [...]

Is Cisco for Small Business the Right Choice?

Having worked at IT consulting on a part time basis since 1986 and full-time for the past eight years I’ve had the opportunity to work with a lot of small to mid-sized organizations varying in size from the one person home office to entities with revenues in the mid-eight figure range and just under 100 [...]

Wireshark for Network Management

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An edited version of this article was originally printed in the May 2009 edition of Hakin9 Magazine under Tool Reviews. As an IT consultant I frequently need to monitor and analyze network traffic. Wireshark is easily the tool of choice. Introduction: The great white is one of the undisputed masters of the open seas and [...]