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In today’s workplace, nothing is more frustrating than malfunctioning technology. And when it’s the company’s network that’s down, the IT team can be sure they’ll hear about it—fast. So for tech team ...

The process of troubleshooting your network involves a methodology that starts with cabling and works through the OSI model to the application layer. The network devices have a network cable that ...

Network technology improves and advances every year. New standards promise interoperability, new devices simplify configuration, and monitoring solutions declare preemptive problem resolution. Does ...

What’s next for Python-powered troubleshooting Ongoing developments show Python being paired with orchestration tools like Ansible to fully document and recreate network and system environments. In ...

When you keep overlooking the solution.

In many ways, the art of networking today is quite different from when I entered the field about 17 years ago as a part-time student assistant in the networking group at the university where I was ...

But troubleshooting a network when you're not constantly on-site can be difficult, especially when the problems are intermittent (as they frequently are). One alternative is to temporarily connect a ...

Going wireless may avoid the expense of cabling and wired LAN drops, but wireless networks still require effective technical support and troubleshooting. Smooth operation starts with a well-designed ...

Wireless LANs were once seen as the easy alternative to the wired LAN. After all, they weren't used for primary network access and they didn't have to be eternally stable or particularly far-reaching.

Back when I worked in the Network Operations department at one of my previous jobs, we used to chuckle when a customer would call us reporting that “the Internet is down.” Now, I realize that there ...