Ask the Experts

Ask the Experts

• Performance routing solution may relieve network traffic issues

  When facing issues with MPLS VPN services, such as slowness, outages and application timeouts, a performance routing solution may help improve Layer 3 VPN problems.  Continue Reading

• Can cloud VPNs completely secure network traffic?

  In this Ask the Expert response, VPN expert Rainer Enders discusses cloud VPN security and how enterprises can best protect their network's perimeter.  Continue Reading

• What network monitoring tools give you visibility into corporate VPNs?

  What network monitoring tools give enterprise WANs the visibility they need into their corporate VPNs? Find out in this expert answer.  Continue Reading

• Why should you monitor your Internet VPN?

  Learn why it is important for enterprises to monitor the traffic traversing your Internet virtual private network (VPN), in this expert response with Rainer Enders.  Continue Reading

• Are Internet VPNs the same as Web SSL VPNs?

  What constitutes an Internet virtual private network (VPN) and are Internet VPNs the same as Web SSL VPNs? Find out in this expert response with Rainer Enders.  Continue Reading

• Ensuring wireless PCI compliance

  Ensuring wireless PCI compliance requires attention to network components, how these devices are connected, and may require some network reconfiguration.  Continue Reading

• Ad hoc network creation: Overcoming personal wi-fi hotspot competition

  Ad hoc network creation is rising due to personal wi-fi hotspots from smartphones and computers. Addressing its impact on your WLAN is key to overcoming potential interference.  Continue Reading

• When military radar causes fixed broadband wireless interference

  Military radar may cause fixed broadband wireless interference. This expert tip explains tests and ideas to check if this is the case and how to address this interference.  Continue Reading

• Fixing CRC errors: Know your wireless router coverage area boundaries

  Distance between devices may cause interference in your wireless router coverage area and CRC errors to pop up. This expert tip offers advice for fixing CRC errors.  Continue Reading

• Unauthorized network access: Neighbors pose a network security threat?

  Unauthorized network access from a corporate neighbor or employee poses a serious network security threat and is considered theft of service. This tip explains why.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise wireless connection policy: Navigating cellular vs. WiFi

  Trying to decide cellular vs. Wi-Fi for mobile devices? An enterprise wireless connection policy will help steer mobile devices to the right network.  Continue Reading

• Network testing strategies for the enterprise: Meet the experts

  SearchNetworking.com’s new experts, Tom Kunath and Andy Sholomon, discuss network testing strategies for the enterprise at Cisco Live 2011.  Continue Reading

• Providing fastest Internet sharing speed for clients

  Lindi Horton explains how to provide the fastest Internet sharing speed to a client when many users are trying to access the internet as well as potential issues and solutions.  Continue Reading

• Wi-fi replacing Ethernet? An expert weighs in on the possibilities

  Wireless expert, Lisa Phifer addresses a query regarding Wi-Fi replacing Ethernet. Lisa provides analysis, advantages and disadvantages, and future expectations of both.  Continue Reading

• Cisco 1200 series access points serve both thick and thin AP roles

  Are Cisco 1200 access points operated in “thick” or autonomous mode or as a thin AP, a lightweight access point that is controlled by a central controller? An expert explains.  Continue Reading