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Independent perspective on vendor decisions and architecture choices for IT leaders

Rethinking Campus Networking

Should we be thinking about doing networking differently? We've been planning and deploying the same way for many years. But Nile is executing on a bold vision that challenges our long-held beliefs. Resetting Legacy Networking We’ve grown accustomed to managing complex networks with protocols like Spanning

Ubiquiti's Shift into Enterprise

Ubiquiti's Shift into Enterprise

Remember when Ubiquiti's UniFi was the scrappy underdog of networking—beloved by small businesses for its affordability but largely ignored by enterprise IT? Well, those days might be behind us. Ubiquiti is making some serious moves in 2025, and frankly, it's about time. They're

Cisco Unveil's Meraki Campus Gateway: A Cloud-Managed Overlay for Complex Networks

When you think of Meraki, you think of simplicity. Zero-touch provisioning. Clean dashboards. Minimal complexity. And then Cisco announced the Meraki Campus Gateway (MCG). The simplicity model begins to break down in large campus environments—such as universities, hospitals, and distributed enterprises—where mobility, high availability, and centralized control

Smarter, Faster, More Affordable: Juniper EX4000

Disclosure: This blog post is sponsored by Juniper Networks. If you’re a network engineer or IT decision-maker responsible for maintaining critical networks, then you’re going to want to hear about how the Juniper Networks EX4000 can help turn complex connectivity into simplified and easy to manage networks.

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HPE's $14B Power Play - AI Networking Dominance

The following is my own opinion of the HPE and Juniper merger based on my experience with the products and previous experience as being a customer of a merger. This should not to be interpreted as facts. Back in 2017, a group of delegates sat in a room for Mobility