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Founded in 1984 Cisco has quickly gone on to be one of the leading players in the telecommunications industry, supplying 87% of Fortune 500 companies with a variety of products. But how do you get your hands on Cisco products? Despite being a wildly successful business Cisco rarely make sales directly to the end-user, and when they do they are ...

Cisco is a global supplier of all things technology. Be it voice, networking, or cybersecurity, Cisco has something for every business.  In technology, hardware describes the physical components of a network or computing device such as the CPU, switch, router, and anything you can physically touch. On ...

Previously, the Cisco Partner Program was a collection of 12 separate certifications that could be attained by organisations that retailed Cisco products. However, in 2020 Cisco announced their streamlined version of the program: the Cisco Channel Partner Program.  The Cisco Channel Partner Program is a condensed 5 tier model, with each ...

A regulatory domain can be described as a set of rules and policies providing the end user with configurations of country code, calibration channel, and output power settings for a wireless device set up in a specific area. It is worth noting that devices can only work in one regulatory domain at a time. There are 4 main regulatory domains in the ...

The Cisco 1841 Integrated Services Router is part of the Cisco 1800 routers family. What distinguishes this device from the others is that it offers embedded hardware-based encryption enabled by an optional Cisco IOS Software security image. Not only Cisco 1841 delivers further enhancement of VPN performance with an optional VPN acceleration module...

A traditional firewall provides stateful inspection of incoming and outgoing network traffic. It allows or blocks traffic based on port, state, and protocol. It also filters traffic based on administrator-defined rules. A next-generation firewall or NGFW provides the same, and much more! In addition to access control, NGFWs include supplementary ...

First released in January 2008, Cisco Nexus Switches are designed using Cisco Unified Fabric to provide streamlined access to all network and storage entities – connecting physical, virtual, and cloud environments to support a virtual data centre. Cisco Nexus Switches deliver network agility by supporting dynamic resource allocation, ...

Launched in 2017, the Cisco Catalyst 9000 family is a series of enterprise-class switches build for security, internet, mobility, and multi-cloud The switches provide unparalleled security features for the network designs of the future, offering built-in wired and wireless security and application visibility. Year on year the data moving demands ...

ASA stands for Adaptive Security Appliance, and Cisco ASA devices provide a combination solution for firewalls, antivirus, and intrusion prevention, as well as operating as a virtual private network (VPN). The Cisco ASA family holds a concoction of security solutions that creates the ultimate all-in-one device for any network size, with over 15 ...

Every year Earth Overshoot Day marks the date where the annual global demand for resources exceeds what Earth can regenerate that year. The exact date is calculated by dividing the number of natural resources generated by the earth that year (biocapacity) by the humanities consumption of Earths natural resources (ecological footprint) and ...