The Future of networking

I have always been a big fan of networking, this why I spent over 18 years on the field of networking, because when there is a problem, your mind will be challenged like never before. Even the tiniest of problem can bring a challenge on the table which will make all of you think like never before. With years I found Spanning tree issues are some of the trickiest to detect because they send you off course. You will be looking at other problems but the real issue just lie with Spanning Tree and even distributed sniffer will not help when you have complicated issues around Spanning Tree.

In 1993 when Cisco was not the king of network yet, I applied for a job in their company, because I just had a hunch that networking is what will make businesses succeed or fail.But this is a fact most C-Level executives ignore. I have had a privilege of serving many organisations and worked with some of the best Networking people in this field. When there is a networking problem, everything stop working, and the business stopped functioning properly at this point the focus was on Network experts to resolve this problem as soon as possible. However when everything is working, nobody gave credit to Network boffins. I am guessing it is the same with everything important in life, when the Sun is up and shining we do not feel it is a real privilege to have the Sun, until the day we will not have the Sun. again I am not saying that network has the same importance as the Sun.

It our core belief here at iToTalMarketing that the future of network is all wireless, although you have the ability at the moment to have wired network running at 10Gig and 1Gig is becoming the norm for the access layer, and fastest wireless technology most widely available is still 108Mb. It seems that wired technology is winning all the time, but this is about to change.We are sure that soon we will have over 1Gb wireless technology and this will be a game changer. We know there are security concerns, interference issues, signal issues and backward compatibility problems. Once this milestone is reached, wireless will be the technology that everybody will be using everywhere. I do not believe we are very close to get transcontinental wireless links yet, this technology is still far off but who knows?


It is well known that Online games have played a big part in the development cycle of new very powerful computers that allow, the top game players to be very quick online. It is very obvious apart from geek who have structure CAT6 cables in their house, very few people love the clutter created by numerous cables and the salvation is on the way in a form of Gig wireless. Like every technology at the beginning it will not be affordable, because of the potential of the Gig wireless technology, ISP must start investing in their Access, Distribution and Core Layer in the next 18 months before they are overwhelmed by new traffic which they did not predict. Who knew that Clear Channel Selectors that was formerly available only in very pricey wireless hubs for companies will be now available to home router at no premium?

For those who are not real believer of wireless technology, because it has not followed Moore's law be ready to be dazzled, because it maturity time has come and will be everywhere whether you like it or not. For more information visit us at iTotalMarketing.

Tips of Securing your IT Infrastructure

In Most small businesses we interact with,   80% of the Mobile devices used by staff are not secured and IT is not even aware of them. In our experience we believe that  businesses need to acquire these devices and secure them in the way that protect the business It infrastructure. We are not saying that you need to lock people off the network but you need to strike a balance that is very important for the business. This balance is between the mobile functionality, usability and security.

We use a Seven Strategies for Acquiring Mobile Employees that is supposed to offer practical assistance with dealing and among the quickest growing risks towards the security of sensitive and private information. It's the growing sophistication and ease of such mobile products as laptops, iPhone, Androids, iPads and USB stays that lead to both their recognition within the place of work as well as their risk for an organisation’s systems, data and status.

The amount of Mobile devices that staff use grow on the daily basis and most IT Services do not have any strategy to protect their network against any malicious code , that hidden in the Mobile device and that can easily be transferred on to the network infrastructure. Our IT Security portfolio we have tools that  will defend your network against malicious use of  Mobile device to gain illegal access to your network. If you need to find out more you can get in touch with us at iTotalMarketing .