Six brands cover almost every business network we see: Cisco, Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba Networking, Juniper, HPE Networking Instant On and Ubiquiti. All of them make reliable hardware. The real difference is how you manage it, what it costs to run over time and how much your team wants to configure. The short version: Cisco […]
Juniper makes four families of routing hardware. SRX firewalls route and secure branch offices. MX routers handle the WAN edge, data centers and service-provider edge. ACX routers serve metro and access networks. PTX routers carry backbone and data-center core traffic. All of them run the same operating system, Junos. For most enterprises the choice comes […]
Every business network is built from the same few pieces of hardware: something that brings the internet in, a router or firewall that protects and directs traffic, switches that connect wired devices, access points for Wi-Fi, and the cabling, racks and power that hold it together. Size and brand change from site to site; the […]
An enterprise router connects your sites to the internet, to each other and to your data center. Compared with a small-office router it handles far more traffic, several internet links at once, VPNs to many sites, routing protocols like BGP, and redundant power, and it’s built to run for years without a reboot. The best […]