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Author Archives: Matthew Norwood
Cisco Wireless Transmit Power Control
I’m going to start out by telling you something you probably already know. Every vendor has their own way of doing things. Sometimes it makes perfect sense, and other times you end up scratching your head wondering why that particular … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, wireless
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The Importance of Product Education
I learned something new this afternoon. While other users of this product were already aware of it, I was not. This is something that is specific to the Wi-Fi community, but there is a larger point affecting all practitioners of … Continue reading
Posted in career, learning, training, wireless
3 Comments
Can I Be Brutally Honest?
There are several reasons I love being on the road. One of them is the sense of accomplishment I get from doing a particular job in a set amount of time. There is a defined period in which I will … Continue reading
Posted in career
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Where Is Cisco UCS Headed?
If you happen to read my writing(as infrequent as it is these days), you know that I am a networking focused person. I live my day to day within the walls of routing, switching, wireless, and other “network centric” platforms … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, data center, hardware, storage
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A Training Class Where I Actually Learned Something
TL/DR – Canned labs never work for me. Training for me has always been hit or miss. I have had better luck with in person classes than online training. I realize that everyone learns differently, so I suppose you pick … Continue reading
Posted in aruba, career, learning, training
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Choosing Sides In Technology
I started out the evening writing a post on Aruba ClearPass, but this has been weighing on my mind lately, so I figured Aruba ClearPass can wait. It seems that the Internet is filled with all sorts of opinions as … Continue reading
Posted in career, selling
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How Does This Help Aruba Networks?
I was going over my YouTube subscriptions tonight, as I do at least once a week, and came across this video from Aruba Networks: While I do love watching things go through a shredder, I fail to see the point … Continue reading
Winning With Ecosystems
Back in 2010, I wrote a post entitled “Competing With Cisco”. It has been a few years, and since I have been in the VAR space for almost 3 years now, I have a slightly different perspective. One thing I … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, vendors
2 Comments
Could Cisco ACI Kill APM?
Note – This is ALL 100% speculation on my part. I may be WAY off base with what you are about to read, and if you know something I don’t, feel free to correct me in the comments below. I … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, data center, monitoring, network management
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Architecting Supportable Designs…..and a rant or two.
I just spent 9 weeks on site with a client building out a network reference architecture. The goal was to provide them with a framework they could use to configure their network in the future without having to reinvent the … Continue reading
Posted in career, documentation
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