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 [...]

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 [...]