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The Spanning Tree Protocol, sometimes just referred to as Spanning Tree, is the Waze or MapQuest of modern Ethernet networks, directing traffic along the most efficient route based on real-time conditions. Based on an algorithm created by American computer scientist Radia Perlman while she was working for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1985, the primary purpose of Spanning Tree is to prevent redundant links and the looping of communication pathways in complex network configurations. As…

Wi-Fi 6, also known as 802.11ax, was officially certified in 2020 and has quickly become the de facto standard for wireless LAN (WLAN), superseding Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac). Wi-Fi 6 delivers improved performance, extended coverage, and longer battery life compared to Wi-Fi 5. Wi-Fi 6 was originally designed to address bandwidth problems associated with dense, high-traffic environments such as airports, stadiums, trains, and offices. However, the explosion of IoT devices that need to connect wirelessly to…

How many people on social media have friends only in their home city?  Probably not very many, so we shouldn’t think that when Meta or others deploy a metaverse, the inhabitants will all be drawn from the same place. To be successful, a metaverse has to support dispersed users, and the more successful it is, the more its users can be expected to be dispersed over a wider geography. Today, metro, but tomorrow the world….

Now that Cisco’s UCS X -Series launch is behind us, I wanted to discuss the tenets that shaped the product architecture of UCS X- Series. It has been more than decade since Cisco launched our UCS platform, a newcomer into the well-established enterprise server market. Rest is history. What has changed since then? Shift towards Heterogenous Computing The previous decade of computing was all about convergence. Protocol maturity of SAS & Fibre Channel  made them…