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02.10.2020
Conscia Device Portal a given when Suzuki Garphyttan invests in Industry 4.0
Suzuki Garphyttan is adopting their strategy for “Smart Industry 4.0” towards truly modern manufacturing with IoT – and the focus fell squarely on Conscia DevicePortal in order to keep track of all new devices that need to be connected.
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16.9.2020
Cisco SD-Access Under the Hood
Author: Robert Lesar
In dynamic IT environments, network and security operations can be challenging. Watch the webinar where we dived into the Cisco SD-Access solution and explained how it improves visibility, consistency, and security over the entire enterprise from users to applications.
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18.3.2020
Wifi6 – Your guide to the new wireless standard
For each generation of WiFi we have gotten used to faster and faster wireless connections. The same thing applies to WiFi 6, but the biggest feature with this new generation of WiFi is not the speed itself but that the capacity and bandwidth are divided in a more efficient way. Download the white paper to learn more about WiFi 6, the technologies that enable it and WiFi 6 benefits.
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16.12.2019
Disrupting wildlife crime with leading tech
In the oldest proclaimed nature reserve in Africa, an international team of technology and wildlife experts have come together to disrupt the status quo.
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08.7.2019
SDN on steroids
Author: Mitja Robas
On SDN myths, real-life challenges, and practical use cases.
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22.2.2019
Lowering the aggregation link costs while improving service quality
A major international service provider was facing service quality issues due to regular, but non-deterministic congestion on their international, expensive aggregation links. NIL helped them develop a solution that automatically detects congestion and rebalances traffic across multiple links.
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20.12.2017
How to improve grid reliability, compliance, and cost efficiency?
Learn how Cisco Substation Automation solution enables utilities to manage, control, and automate remote grid assets more efficiently by combining business and utility functions, and simplifying grid operations.
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24.11.2017
Digitalization of water and waste management
Author: Bojan Radulović
Learn how a small municipality in Slovenia embraced IoT and deployed the LORA network, smart sensors and an analytical platform in order to improve water usage utilization and garbage collection.
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04.10.2017
7 tips to boost your Wi-Fi network
Author: New Item
Learn how to set up a reliable, secure, and fast wireless network in your organization that won't cause any headaches for you, your employees, or your guests.
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24.5.2017
Management and Orchestration in Complex and Dynamic Network Environment
Author: New Item
Learn how standardization can contribute to a successful service orchestration in the SDN environment and what can be achieved by proper system design.
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20.4.2017
Implementing NSX – real-life journey from idea to practice
Author: New Item
Data Center infrastructure should allow IT administrators and operations teams to meet their management and support nirvana by vaporizing the spells and curses related to the environment. SDDC is a platform that promises catching that unicorn by enabling true flexible and scalable infrastructure.
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02.11.2016
Collaboration with this kind of engineer is easy. Even at 3AM.
Within its NIL Assist service, NIL provides Generali zavarovalnica d.d. with technical support in its IT-infrastructure management and problem solving. Marko Kariž is a dedicated engineer and the first to contact when a technical problem arises.
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20.10.2016
When Sniffer Meets Analytics and Big Data
Author: Robert Turnšek
When IT infrastructures evolve into complex systems full of legacy equipment and services, troubleshooting often turns into arcane magic or a game of whack-a-mole. If you haven't thought about network sniffing and reporting tools, it's high time you do.
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29.9.2016
CCIE candidate, grab that cable!
Author: Marjan Bradeško
A few days ago a friend of mine who had read my previous blog on CCIE asked me to explain how it all looked like 21 years ago when I passed my lab exam. Well...
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22.9.2016
Azure Data Center Extension - Network
Author: Robert Turnšek
Learn how to set up the Azure environment to act like a natural extension of your data center, where you can run and manage your services just like you do on‑premise.
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21.7.2016
Azure Network and Compute
Author: Robert Turnšek
Learn how you can use Azure as a flexible on-demand source of IT-resources and when this makes sense.
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27.6.2016
To CCIE or not to CCIE?
Author: Marjan Bradeško
A puzzled question? Grammatically wrong. What I mean is: "To pursue a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert [CCIE] certification or not?" Or let`s rephrase and generalize the question: "To become a certified individual or not?" We face such questions quite often. I have been asking this question myself - and been asked by my students, colleagues - multiple times.
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28.2.2016
OPTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR ENTERPRISES & SERVICE PROVIDERS
Optical network become more important in later years as bandwidth has rapidly increased and fibers cannot be added with the same pace. Optical solutions based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) have been in use for enterprises and service providers (SP) to conduct different technologies with different speeds and variety of distances.
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14.12.2015
How can my network benefit from SDN?
With the flood of solutions and products that are promoted under the name Software Defined Networks one will inevitably ask the question “What’s in it for me? How can my network benefit from SDN?” And the answer, as is mostly the case, is: “It depends.” SDN is different things to different people and different organizations.
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16.10.2015
DPI Solutions for Service Providers
Deep packet inspection (DPI) solutions are designed for carrier-grade stateful application inspection and session based classification of per subscriber IP traffic. The DPI functionality allows service providers to develop new differentiated services and increase their subscriber base by providing a portfolio of customer-tailored services.
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30.7.2015
Breaking Myths: SDN and NFV
Author: Mitja Robas
IT administrators are setting their hearts on maximizing programmability and automating routine tasks. This also applies to the network, but in reality it’s difficult to achieve. What we do know is that different organizations need different network functionalities.
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13.6.2015
UMTS & LTE Packet Core in SP Mobility
LTE, as a successor to UMTS, increases the capacity and speed together with many packet core network improvements. The challenge of interworking and seamless migration between the two technologies in the packet core area is a challenge that awaits many mobile service providers (SP's).
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15.5.2015
Even more engaging conference for visitors and partners
Using NIL’s solution Storesense Expo, Microsoft will be able to further optimize the arrangement of exhibitor stands and conference events and as a result provide sponsors, visitors, and partners with firm arguments for being part of the conference.
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10.5.2015
Service Provider Network Management
Service provider network today tries to adapt to latest business and residential services. As result networks expand with number of devices as well as in number of features to support demanding services. Managing such networks requires highly educated personnel and right tools to manage running services.
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03.2.2015
IP Next-Generation Network (NGN)
The idea behind the IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) is to provide IP transport for all services and applications, regardless of user access type, thus enabling the addition of new services and applications without any changes in the transport network.
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13.1.2015
IPV6 for Service Providers
Due to IPv4 address scarcity and increasing growth in the segment of connected devices the need for new address allocation has increased the requirement for service providers (SP) to offer IPv6 connectivity to subscribers. As the content available over IPv6 is increasingly growing a SP needs to upgrade its existing infrastructure to support the protocol.
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02.12.2014
The case for broadband Wi-Fi
This year we are celebrating 15 years of Wi-Fi technologies. In terms of technology, Wi-Fi is still pretty young and will probably see a lot more innovation in the coming years although it has experienced significant growth since the inception of IEEE 802.11n in 2007.
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30.10.2013
Overlay Virtual Networking
Ivan explained the benefits and drawbacks of overlay virtual networks as compared to traditional VLAN-based solutions. The second half of the session focused on architectural and scalability aspects of individual solutions from major virtualization vendors and emerging startups.
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22.9.2013
Smooth connectivity for journalists and staff
NIL was responsible for design, deployment of wired and wireless networks, and we also monitored and managed the whole network infrastructure. Result? No network downtime through the entire tournament and at all the venues.
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10.4.2013
Better and safer patient care
There is a correlation between waiting in emergency departments and complications in later hospital care, therefore MEU management decided to implement an electronic whiteboard (EW) to speed up and improve patient care.
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12.2.2013
Thanks to NIL team for the unique network design solution!
We deployed a rare VRRP configuration and a unique network design on two Cisco 2921 routers.
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18.1.2013
Commitment and Efficiency Deliver Great Results
The project consisted of migration from Cisco 7600 Series routers to new Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers to prepare the Orange’s network for new technologies and an increasing number of users, with a second goal of improving network reliability.
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22.10.2012
OpenFlow and SDN: Hype, Useful Tools or Panacea?
Ivan described the basics of OpenFlow, its advantages and pitfalls, and the potential real-life use cases including a brief overview of some existing deployments.
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30.9.2011
Data Center Fabrics: beyond the hype and marketecture
Every networking vendor is talking about Data Center fabric these days, usually offering a proprietary architecture that works well only with the devices from the same vendor.
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30.9.2011
Cloud computing networking: under the hood
This lecture describes the networking requirements of various cloud services and designs you can use to build a data center networks that support them.
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22.9.2011
First step in enterprise's IPv6
NIL provided the necessary expertise to bring Amway's technical teams up to speed on the current challenges and best practices surrounding IPv6, assisting them in laying out a roadmap for implementation and IPv4 to IPv6 transition.
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16.8.2011
Ultimate choice for an external evaluation of network design
As the company was making changes in their network, they asked NIL’s Ivan Pepelnjak to work with them as an external consultant. The collaboration is described by MWEB’s Network Architect, Ian Castleman.
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09.3.2011
Increased competitive advantage of the hosted environment
Virtual hosting enables Vodacom to provide secure and reliable data, information and application storage on Virtual Machines (VMs). To increase its product’s competitive advantage, Vodacom decided to add features and new functionality, enriching monitoring capabilities and giving customers detailed insight into their virtual environment status.
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26.1.2011
Smooth work processes in the shops means greater customer satisfaction
Product quality and diverse offerings are important contributors to customer satisfaction, but reliable and smooth work processes in the shops also have an enormous impact. Spar relies on NIL Monitor to maintain the stability of their IT infrastructure.
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25.9.2010
Internet bandwidth: Do you get what you pay for?
Author: New Item
Suppose that workers at your remote offices are experiencing slow and unresponsive network applications. When narrowing the scope of possible causes, you really have only a few options. You can run ping tests all day long to find the cause of the high latency. But how can you test bandwidth availability?
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07.7.2010
Use Your Routers as Traffic Generators
Author: New Item
I came across a very interesting but undocumented command that turns a router into a traffic generator. But please keep in mind that such activity heavily utilizes even a modern router’s CPUs, and its use should be avoided in production networks unless you’re performing stress tests.
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26.1.2009
Improved investment planning and IT changes
Constant monitoring of more than 100 location links significantly simplifies the IT administration and helps prevent errors. Additionally, monthly reports have helped Mladinska knjiga in choosing the best service providers, as well as with investment planning.