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  • How green is my network? -- A look at the cost-savings benefit of green IT

    The trend of green networking is an offshoot of the growing emphasis on greening, or decreasing the negative impact to the environment of just about everything -- including data centers and IT in general. Richard Ptak has written about green IT for S...  Tip

  • Governance, compliance, security: How are these network problems?

    Issues of governance, compliance and security are becoming the responsibility of network operations staff because increasingly complex, componentized services are carried on the network. Network staff must cooperate with other teams to ensure good co...  Tip

  • Upgrade your network: Network evolution and roadmap

    Network infrastructure upgrades are essential to provide availability, reliability and security when you run voice and video on your data network. This tip provides an overview of trends currently affecting the network and the key infrastructure cons...  Tip

  • Server virtualization basics for network pros

    Server virtualization isn't just a data center technology. It can also benefit your network by helping to reduce costs and simplify configuration and management issues -- but you need to know where it makes sense before you deploy.  Tip

  • Network design: Five ways to lower your costs

    Any modern company needs a fast and efficient network to support its communications and business systems, and superior technology can sometimes provide the upper hand in a competitive market. At the same time, IT budgets are limited, requiring smart ...  Tip

  • Network summarization -- Supernetting and wildcard masks

    Supernetting allows one routing table entry to represent an aggregation of networks. Network engineers need to understand supernetting, how to read routes received from other providers and how to create an access list that references these multiple n...  Tip

  • IP addressing and subnetting: Calculate a subnet mask using the subnet's formula

    IP addressing and subnetting are an important part of networks. Learn how the subnet's formula works and why it's important to know how to calculate the subnet mask "longhand."  Tip

  • IP addressing and subnetting: Calculate a subnet mask using the host's formula

    IP addressing and subnetting are an important if basic part of networks. Network administators will learn how to calculate a subnet mask using the host's formula.  Tip

  • Staging labs for network engineering

    Making changes to your network is less scary with adequate planning and staging, and go even more smoothly if you have a staging lab. In this tip, Tom Lancaster explains how and why such labs can be useful, then provides advice for designing and buil...  Tip

  • Network engineering overview: Detailed design considerations

    Implementing architectural concepts and dealing with detailed network designs must be second nature to the network engineer. In the conclusion of our tip series on things network engineers need to know to be effective, Tom Lancaster provides some con...  Tip

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