TAP Into Technology Blog: Network TAPs
“Not another installation setback”
As my daughter approaches her 3rd birthday, we've loosened up the rules on watching cartoons. Now, we all look forward to Saturday morning cartoons … and pancakes. Personally, I haven’t watched cartoons in 30 years. Surprisingly, it seems...
Fewer Surprises Make Better Deployments
I remember it clearly. Christmas 1982. I was 6 years old. I wanted only one gift from my parents that year: Masters of the Universe Castle Grayskull As the big day grew closer, I knew exactly what was in that large box under the tree. I...
Don’t let snags unravel IT network deployments
Maximizing the merriment in December requires Santa-like scheduling superpowers. There are friends and family to visit, gifts to buy, cookies to bake, and Hallmark movies to binge. Likely, there’s also a holiday sweater to dig out and dust...
OT Segmentation Best Practices For a More Secure Industrial Network
In the age of the Industrial 4.0 Revolution, data is king. It’s the impetus that drives IT/OT convergence in some of our most critical industries. Smart cities like Dallas are merging IP subnet-based VLANs and utility infrastructure to...
Preventing Packet Loss for Optimal Network Performance
Downtime is an expense that few businesses can afford in the age of hybrid work and digital transformation. According to Datto, an hour of downtime costs $8,000 for a small company, $74,000 for a medium company, and $700,000 for a large...
How to Improve Telco VoIP Troubleshooting – What every Field Engineer should know
I spent many years as a technical support engineer for a Telecommunications company that did voice and data services in third-tier markets. We would be called in to troubleshoot any performance issues with the equipment. Our customers were...