Understanding Wireless Heatmaps: How to interpret wireless survey reports

I've been doing a fair amount of wireless surveys lately, and part of the survey process includes generating the report that I present to the customer. These reports come with a series of heatmaps that aren't always self explanatory. This often leads to a discussion with the customer where i provide additional interpretation of the … Continue reading Understanding Wireless Heatmaps: How to interpret wireless survey reports

Quality of Service: When to use it

I am currently finishing a project where I am designing a custom Quality of Service policy for a customers suite of business critical applications. The customer uses MPLS as their WAN and the bandwidth for the MPLS is different depending on the site; Datacenters have more bandwidth, branches have decent bandwidth, and small kiosks only … Continue reading Quality of Service: When to use it

Using DNA Center (Catalyst Center) LAN Automation to make your life easier.

In my ongoing effort to randomly write about what I am actively working on, I am currently deploying an SD-Access fabric using Cisco's DNA Center, now rebranded as Catalyst Center.โ€‚As part of this project we used the LAN automation process to build the network to all of the access switches.โ€‚We had about 15 different switches … Continue reading Using DNA Center (Catalyst Center) LAN Automation to make your life easier.