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Facing the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage

MEC Digital — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 05:07:49 +0000

In the Philippines, the Cybersecurity Awareness Month is held every September, while in the U.S, it’s celebrated in October. In both occasions, it is a collaborative effort between the government and the industry to raise awareness on how crucial and important Cybersecurity is. However, the real question is, “Is awareness enough?”

Studies revealed that there’s a shortage of talent to fill cybersecurity positions all over the world. Unfilled cybersecurity jobs due to a severe scarcity of available individuals with the right skills are currently estimated to be close to 3 million globally. That’s quite a number, considering the changing threat landscape and the increasing frequency of cyber-attacks organizations must face.

This talent pool problem is not new. The issue has been highlighted by the industry for the last 5 to 10 years. The cybersecurity skill gap continues to accelerate and is now considered one of the top cybersecurity risks faced by many organizations.

A Systematic Issue

In this age of data breach, the real challenge goes beyond the lack of professionals. There is not enough interest generated in schools. This leads to fewer graduates with technical skills and discipline. Even today’s technology users suffer from a lack of knowledge on basic threats, putting the organization they work for at risk. All these branches out from the failure to understand that cybersecurity is everyone’s job.

How can Tech Providers Help?

Closing the talent gap will require support from both the public and private sectors through education, training, and mentoring for both professional and everyday tech users. Since the threat landscape is evolving, proper and regular cybersecurity updates become an imperative for individuals and organizations.

MEC Networks has a proven track record of providing trainings and enabling customers through regular knowledge transfer initiatives. Through this, we guarantee that our clients receive quality support and information in every stage of their ICT development. If you would like to arrange an in-depth workshop for you and your organization, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.

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National Teacher’s Month: Embracing Digital Learning

MEC Digital — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 06:44:59 +0000

Education is of the highest importance in Filipino culture. It is ingrained in our belief system that the best thing for us and our children is to secure a better future through education.

As we all are aware of now, the only thing constant in this era of digital transformation is change. This holds true in the Education Sector as well. While it is no secret that the Philippines is still lagging in the e-learning industry, more and more schools have adopted technologies over the past years to help students develop 21st-century skills.

Gone are the days when students sit in the classroom and rely solely on listening to lectures to learn. Today’s education must be collaborative and interactive but the question is, “how can schools achieve an engaged learning environment for their students?” That’s where the right technology solutions come in.

In this article, we’ll talk about the benefits of an E-Learning environment and how principals, school administrators, and educators can help make a holistic learning environment using smart solutions.

Benefits of E-Learning:

1.) Scalability – Create and communicate new policies, trainings, ideas, and concepts easily with Online learning to as many educators and students as possible.

2.) Personalization – Each student has a unique way of learning. Digital Learning makes it easier to cater to each student’s individual needs. It allows students to choose what and when to learn at their own pace.

3.) Better learning retention – The modern student prefers interactive learning materials. They would rather choose to watch a video or listen to a podcast than read through tons of pages of a book. With the right tools, educators can design their curriculum to be more interactive. The more engaging the learning material is, the higher the retention of knowledge. Refreshing and updating the learning materials can be done easily too.

4.) Saves time and money – With e-learning, students can access learning materials anywhere and anytime. It also reduces time away from the workplace/classroom and eliminates the need for travel.

How to achieve a holistic learning environment:

1.) Connectivity – Securing a fast and consistent network connectivity coverage throughout the classroom and campuses can be a challenge for school administrators. That’s where a reliable backbone and a future-proof network comes to play. A reliable cabling infrastructure ensures a faster and more efficient connectivity operation while a network paired with advanced wireless capability can facilitate day-to-day functions while being ready for the future.

2.) Cybersecurity – With your students going online, cybersecurity becomes a huge priority. Parents may not be at ease about their child’s online learning environment knowing that the online world is filled with a wild mess of content. An integrated, preventive, and responsive cybersecurity solution can provide the highest level of protection in an ever-changing threat landscape, protecting your most valuable asset, your students.

3.) Physical Security – Every campus should be a learning environment that is safe for both the learners and educators. Employing robust end-to-end security that contains most vulnerabilities in the infrastructure is vital.

Benefits of E-Learning:

While there are tons of benefits that Digital Learning can give, there are also drawbacks like students and educators become so technologically dependent and of course, the start-up cost it entails to go digital. Despite these, Digital Learning continues to grow in popularity and is considered as an effective learning delivery method. We are not saying that traditional teaching methods should be obsolete, academic institutions just have to be more open to new educational opportunities. To ensure balance, the blended approach is the optimal way as there are certain types of curriculum where traditional methods work better.

With everything said, we are one with the government, advocacy groups, and the academe sector in building a nation where no learner is left behind. After all, continuous learning and education are still the greatest investments we could give to ourselves and the future generation.

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Ruckus: Moving Forward With Digital Learning

MEC Digital — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 06:09:28 +0000

For numerous students and their parents, back to school means buying new garments, school supplies, and backpacks. For a few lucky ones, it means new EdTech also – laptop, tablet, phone, headset, etc. Of course, when convincing mom and dad “It’s for a school assignment, honest!”

But for faculty directors, assistant superintendents, Chief academic Officers, and school boards, it’s also about the way to transition to digital learning to impart 21st century skills, or ‘4 C’s’ of creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration in addition to the ‘3 R’s’ of reading, writing and arithmetic!

Migrating to a more digital syllabus creates many challenges to be navigated. Among them, how much network will our school need to connect everything, since our lecturers will now rely on the network to finish their lessons? How can we address digital equity ESP? For our more deprived students who lack reliable net access at home? Or defend our students from cybersecurity risks, as the online activity could lead them to inappropriate content, or inadvertent behavior as digital natives who can follow them to school or work?

Is there a method to do all this, or at least some of it, while making our students safer at school? From campus-wide threats like storms, fires, to easily wellness threats like smoking and vaping. Vaping is spreading to high schools like an endemic.

The benefits of Digital Learning

At Ruckus, we’ve monitored, researched and spoken out regarding the challenges of the ‘5 Phases of Digital Learning Transition’ – with digital tools enabling pedagogy to evolve from Lab-centric, to Teacher-centric, to Student-centric, to Community-centric to Global-centric. Every phase has its infrastructure requirements to get a correct foundation – like multigigabit networks, Wi-Fi 6, Cat 6A cabling, cloud-managed networks and ultimately IoT and LTE to drive efficiency and improve equity.

In a recent survey conducted by CDE, analysis shows faculties have transitioned from phase 2 to phase 3 these past few years and want to transition to phase 4 over the next number of years. which phase is your faculty at, and where would you prefer to be? look at this colorful infographic to find out more!

Meanwhile, some faculties are implementing eSports programs, powered by networks with high bandwidth and low latency, to teach cooperation, competitive spirit, coding, and STEM. Best of all, most any student can play, therefore making a more comprehensive environment than traditional athletic programs.

So, faculties, these days are far from the grid-arrayed desks and overhead projectors of their parent’s day. And who knows what the long run holds in store? Stay tuned… class is in session!

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Ruckus: Top 5 Advantages of Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi

MEC Digital — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:49:37 +0000

Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi allows IT departments to provision, monitor, optimize and troubleshoot an enterprise-grade Wi-Fi network with intuitive simplicity via one internet dashboard or mobile app. In this blog post, we’ll list the top five reasons to adopt ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi, together with our five favorite reports generated by Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi.

The Advantages of Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi

Cost savings: ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi is based on a ‘pay as you grow model. In real-world terms, this suggests capacity is added as required – and customers aren’t forced to buy and maintain a physical or virtual appliance.
Security: Contrary to widespread belief, the cloud is a secure alternative. Data in transit and at-rest is encrypted with state-of-the-art security. All security patches are applied to the hardware employed in cloud and systems – and are carefully monitored around the clock.
Speed: Projects can be completed at an accelerated rate within the cloud. Wi-Fi is activated and quickly deployed as there aren’t any hardware appliances to configure.
Up-to-date software and no manual upgrades: New features are automatically delivered to the client account. This implies client IT teams don’t need to plan or expend time and resources performing advanced upgrade procedures.
High availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR) and 24/7 support: Customers don’t need to plan or purchase further equipment and licensing for HA and DR.

Our five favorite Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi reports

Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi additionally offers built-in reports backed by an enormous data engine, that stores up to six months of elaborate reporting information. Let’s take a better look at our top five favorite Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi reports.

Top Clients: this is often a favorite for debugging, particularly for IT groups tracing and analyzing bandwidth use.
Application Visibility: Viewing the top 10 applications on the network is of immense importance to its administrators. this is often because faculty IT departments are concerned regarding their network capabilities. Indeed, curriculums are going digital, whereas video streaming is predicted to comprise 80th of all internet traffic by 2021.
Session Inventory: basically, this is often a workhorse report. Public libraries habitually leverage the Session Inventory to report the Wi-Fi usage of their systems to their cities and counties.
Client Reports: These are primarily used to audit the operating systems and devices joining the network.
Unique Clients: This report lists the number of distinctive clients on a network. However, it should be noted that there’s more to this report than meets the eye. More specifically, the black line represents 5 GHz clients, whereas the blue line represents 2.4 GHz clients. A blue line on top of the black line is cause for concern, as this means the network is carrying additional clients on 2.4 GHz than 5.0 GHz. In a pinch, this report can also give a rough glimpse of the RF health of the network.

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Ruckus: Top 3 Drivers of Wireless Evolution in the Enterprise

MEC Digital — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:20:44 +0000

According to IDC, worldwide IoT market spending can increase to $1.1 trillion in 2021, whereas the installed base of IoT endpoints is anticipated to achieve over thirty-six billion units by the end of the same year. However, the heterogeneous nature of the IoT has created multiple complexities for deployments within the enterprise. Whereas the value of sensors has trended downward over the years, there’s currently a major cost associated with building out multiple networks to support endpoint communication. Moreover, enterprises are contending with the steep, long-run cost of managing, securing, and maintaining separate networks for disparate wireless protocols. Though ultimately unsustainable, the preceding paradigm is serving as an accidental catalyst for the trend of wireless convergence within the enterprise. Let’s explore this idea in detail below.

1) Multiple Wireless Radio Technologies

Wi-Fi isn’t perpetually the default choice for firms marketing IoT devices like smart door locks or wearable employees alert buttons. This could be attributed to a variety of things like power constraints, the demand for a lot of compact kind factors, and comparatively restricted data transfers (no need for an enormous information pipe). Consequently, there are various variety of radio types that are being deployed within the enterprise IoT space. additionally, to Wi-Fi, these embody BLE, Zigbee, and LoRa. These deployments typically lead to the creation of separate wireless networks, driving up TCO because of redundant wiring, power, and management tools.

2) The Demand for Unified Management

The unified management of wired (LAN) and wireless (WLAN) networks has become a vital selling point over the past decade. This is because administrators are notoriously unforgiving to vendors that force them to work with a separate management system for every network element. It merely isn’t cost-effective to own one management system for switches, another for access points and however more for additional wireless IoT endpoints. The shortage of appetite for disparate management systems – whether or not for switches, APs or security – has long been a catalyst for network vendor consolidation. Put simply, IT departments are no longer willing to work with multiple management systems and powerfully like vendors that give a unified pane of glass for network management.

3) Deployment Issues: Lack of Physical space

With a separate network for every wireless IoT protocol, enterprises are quickly running out of physical real-estate to deal with further network components. This is because every disparate network needs space to deal with an IoT gateway, a separate firewall, still as switches, powering and cable infrastructure. A scarcity of physical space poses a major barrier to adoption – apart from those with the most to gain or the foremost to lose.

The Solution: The Converged Access Point

Unifying multiple wireless protocols – like BLE, Zigbee, and LoRa – within a single AP enables IT, administrators, to save lots of physical space and streamline secure device onboarding.

Moreover, a converged AP permits administrators to more easily view, manage and secure their entire wireless infrastructure with one pane of glass. This facilitates network automation, the generation of actionable analytics, and therefore the creation of custom dashboards with open APIs.

From our perspective, the converged access point is the antithesis of the trend towards ‘commoditized’ APs, permitting support for new services and doubtless profitable revenue streams.

The once humble access point is turning into a hotbed of recent and exciting innovation, with a lot of and more technologies being engineered directly into the AP. for instance, the R730 packs embedded Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Zigbee radios, along with support for IoT modules which will accommodate additional physical layer protocols like LoRa.

Conclusion

Disparate wireless IoT networks like BLE, Zigbee, and LoRa are expensive to deploy, operate, secure, and manage. Unifying multiple wireless protocols among a single AP permits IT administrators, to save lots of physical space and streamline secure device onboarding. Additionally, a converged AP permits administrators to more easily view, manage and secure their entire wireless infrastructure with one management console. However, it’s necessary to emphasize that incorporating non-Wi-Fi standards into a standard ‘Wi-Fi only’ AP creates a slew of technological challenges that vary from coexistence interference to traffic coordination. This can be a subject we’ll explore in-depth in a future blog post.

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Ruckus: Is your Organization Ready for a Network-as-a-Service Model?

MEC Digital — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 07:40:30 +0000

Many modern enterprises in sectors like hospitality, tourism, and retail are service-driven. Franchising models permit those with the talent and flair to make and develop a brand to expand nationwide and internationally. These individual branches are typically quite little and need small-scale IT deployments, however, the overall picture might extend to 100’s or 1000’s of sites. These deployments should support each business and the customer network access needs, with secure enterprise connectivity and simple guest access. However, typically have you ever chosen a coffee shop not only supported the quality of the food and beverages but additionally on the ability to urge a seat to work, a power outlet and sensible Wi-Fi?

Subscription-based models

What about goods and services on a subscription basis? it’s foreseen that within the future there’ll be autonomous, electrically powered vehicles that will be summoned at a few minutes’ notice, at a very competitive cost, negating the necessity to have or maybe lease a vehicle for exclusively personal use. We’re all already enjoying the advantages of music and video streaming services that provide immediate and cost-effective access to a near-limitless library of content (although I still love my CDs and vinyl records!). Considering these trends in consumption models, why wouldn’t a fast-moving business embrace an identical offering to deliver a network infrastructure service on a subscription basis, scaling the network as and once demand calls for it? These same businesses are already signed up to cloud-hosted application and storage delivery, permitting them to flex their capacity in line with progressive growth or seasonal peaks in their business operations.

Ease of use

Apple didn’t invent smartphones or tablets, however demonstrably aided mass-market adoption with intuitive and simple-to-grasp user interfaces and an app development ecosystem. With the newest announcement of the new Apple TV+ service, there’s recognition of the necessity to diversify in an increasingly competitive device market.

The marketplace for cloud-controlled network infrastructure, especially Wi-Fi, isn’t new. However, some early-to-market solutions are arguably turning into weighed down with features, complexity, and additional cost through licensing choices, decreasing the primary goals of simplicity and speed of deployment at inception.

Network vendors like ruckus, with a history of fantastic equipment design, engineering and performance have already addressed the Cloud market, with the advantage of having the power to analyze this sector because it starts to mature. This has allowed the simplest of each world to be addressed, retaining excellence within the performance of the physical network infrastructure devices, while concentrating on delivering a user interface with the necessary features that are simple to deploy, monitor, and manage.

Maybe it will be many years till I will summon an autonomous vehicle at will. Consequent generation of cloud-controlled networks are here right now.

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Ruckus: The Current IoT Ecosystem

MEC Digital — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 05:39:14 +0000

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a widely used buzz-word showing not simply in technical circles but in everyday language utilized by consumers and the media. Just like different technical terms that have entered common usage, like Cloud Computing, IoT means various things to completely different individuals.

Over the past decades, we’ve seen a trend where devices that always begin out aimed toward the consumer market gain popularity and increased use-cases in business environments. Our current technological era, which started in 2008 with the widespread adoption of smartphones and tablets, is a nice example of this.

The range of “Things” is staggering, some of which are incredibly useful, others questionably less so – Smart Toilet anyone?

Many technical industry people turned home automation and also the world of IoT into an all-consuming hobby. They spend long hours integrating disparate devices and systems into numerous complex climate, security, and infotainment systems. The great news is that things are improving. There are more and more intuitive apps and systems that enabled seamless integration, across multiple manufacturers, all with larger ease.

IoT in the Enterprise

How will this translate to the broader atmosphere outside of our homes? From enterprises to public amusement venues and smart cities, IoT devices and their interaction with one another are gaining in popularity and class.

The challenge is the variety of IoT communication protocols that are battling it out for market dominance. they’re conjointly almost completely wireless in their medium of communication.

This presents the business owner with a challenge – how to support multiple wireless standards in a very cost-effective, reliable, and manageable manner?

Salvation lies with the ubiquitous Wi-Fi Access point.

If we consider that Wi-Fi is similar to internet access, and thus considered a necessary service all over, Wi-Fi access points can perpetually be nearby.

In business, these solutions will become a reality once a key infrastructure provider is able to modify the deployment of an IoT solution. they must be utilizing the prevailing Wi-Fi access points, to securely aggregate disparate IoT communications to a centralized platform. From this platform, open standards Application Programming Interface (API) coding should permit easy integration to any standards-compliant third-party application. Life gets far more interesting once a Rules Engine platform is introduced, permitting apparently disparate IoT devices to act and operate in line with sets of logic.

The world is really turning into a place where if you’ll be able to find the simplest way to code it, you’ll be able to create nearly any IoT device that interacts with another, solely restricted by your imagination and creativity.

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Ruckus: Why Enterprise ICT Deployments Need A Bottoms Up Approach

MEC Digital — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:45:19 +0000

First, some definitions:

Bottoms up = build wireless network (Wi-Fi + IoT). Stable, scalable, secure – then build solutions around it.
Top down = find a solution to the focused problem. Produce an overlay network to connect the app to a “thing”.

Every house wants a solid foundation. You’d not need your linesman gushing concrete, nor would you wish your bricklayer to figure on your plumbing. Thus why can we feel comfy with sensors, devices, or manufacturers of “things” providing the parts for an enterprise network? We shouldn’t. Thing vendors build things, and network vendors build networks. Additionally, every device vendor solely cares regarding their own device, which implies their own network. Deploying a network for one device sort adds complexity, adds cost, is very redundant, and has the potential to make security holes.

Benefits of a Bottoms Up Network

Enterprise IT and OT managers ought to think about the network first. It’ll serve you well and supply important advantages. And here are things to think about in creating a stable, scalable, secure, cost-efficient IoT access network that will meet the requirements of an enterprise IoT ecosystem:

World-class backbone – enterprise-grade wired and wireless infrastructure.
Integrated front end – AP supporting best of Wi-Fi and IoT technologies (BLE, Zigbee, more…) with integrated coexistence technology to manage interference.
Converged back end – unified control and services management, permitting all IoT devices, from totally different vendors to be managed, designed and people that require, connected to relevant local or cloud services. An integrated rules engine that will use data from some “things” as triggers for actions in alternative “things” is additionally a large plus – but saved for an additional blog.
Enterprise-grade security – hardened devices, admin onboarding, Over the Air security, IoT/Wi-Fi Network isolation, and more.
Extensibility – the system is often used for a bunch of applications, from BLE real-time location services to Zigbee connected entry, smart building sensors, security, etc… across applications and manufacturers.
Open – Open System, Open APIs, SDKs to enable the IoT community to collaborate and leverage the network.

While it’ll perpetually be tempting to make your IoT network tops down – see a need, fill a need – within the long run it’ll perpetually pay off to build it bottoms up. whereas you’ll suppose, “I am only solving this particular problem”, there’ll be more things to connect. Thus, you would like a foundation that supports your wants, and an open system that may grow along with your business.

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Why ICT is the Key to the Philippines’ Digital Transformation

MEC Networks Corporation — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:07:31 +0000

As we revisited the history of ICT in our country, we have found out that we are one of the countries with the highest digital populations in the world and our internet user growth rate has no signs of slowing down.

This further shows that communications and connections are valued by most of us and it plays a key role in achieving our goals, especially now that we are in the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution. As we celebrate this year’s National ICT Month, let us explore Why Information and Communications Technology and moving it forward play a key role in the Philippines’ Digital Transformation.

Importance of Investing in ICT

Every country must invest in Information and Communications Technology to improve the way we live through seamless connectivity to the information of the world anytime and anywhere.

Why does the Philippine Government Invest in ICT Infrastructure?

Interconnect the Country

Even Out Social Opportunities

Raise Overall Living Standards

Attain Global Competitiveness

The Philippines’ Current ICT Sector Stakeholders

The current ICT sector in the Philippines is comprised of mobile operators, local exchange, inter-carrier service providers, International Gateway Facility (IFG) operators, and Value-Added Service (VAS) providers.

Assessment of ICT Deployment and Use

Service Coverage 94.7%
Cellular Mobile Telephone Service (CMTS) 53.9%
Fiber-Based Backbone Network 50%
Mobile Broadband Internet Services 80%

Over two billion text messages (sending and receiving) are being handled daily by cellular mobile operators.

Philippines’ average download speed is at 2.34mbps (72nd in worldwide download speed).
Philippine’s average upload speed is at 0.65mpbs (65th in worldwide upload speed).
There are 40,000 to 50,000 registered Internet cafes in the country.
There are approximately more than 10,000 WiFi hotspots in the country.
The country’s social networking penetration rate is at 83.1 percent.
Community e-Center (CeC) Program has successfully connected over 1,200 communities to the Internet.

Some Gaps in Philippine ICT Infrastructure We Can Help Improve

Gaps in communications and information access/services, particularly, low coverage, penetration, and uptake of Internet and broadband.
Rate of catch-up differs among the types of ICT services and their deployment across the regions.
Both coverage and subscription for the Internet are still lagging.
Availability and level of ICT infrastructure and services, especially between major urban centers and rural areas are inconsistent.
The legal and regulatory environment may not be as conducive for investments in ICT infrastructure.
Inadequate competition and level playing field for the provision of ICT infrastructure and services.
Lack of “Green ICT” policies and initiatives.
The greater challenge on how to make services accessible to a larger market base.
Inadequate infrastructure support for e-Government system.
The current structure of government information networks and the state of the e-government system are inadequate.
Lack of appropriate infrastructure, technical features, and interface.
Fragmented development of government ICT applications.

Philippine Local Strategic Plans and Focus

1. To provide fast, reliable, and affordable access to communications services and information. Provide incentives to facilitate ICT infrastructure investments, particularly in the rural and unserved areas.

Establish a sustainable Community e-Center (CeC) Program.
Implement measures to ensure the security and privacy of data in a network and the transmission infrastructure.

2. To cultivate an enabling environment to further attract and sustain private sector investments in ICT infrastructure development.

Establishment of the Department of Information and Communications Technology
Strengthening of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC)
Competition Policy for the ICT Sector
Reassessment of Republic Act No. 7925 or the “Public Telecommunications Policy Act of the Philippines, 1995
Convergence Bill / Information and Communications Policy Act
Frequency Spectrum Management
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Reform
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Broadcasting switchover
“Green ICT” Policies

3. To achieve increased transparency, efficiency, and trust in Government through enhancement of e-government systems.

Enhance e-government portals including the online payment facility
Secure data center and public key infrastructure (PKI) system for government transactions
Promote e-government applications at the LGU level
Pursue Interoperability of information systems across government bodies

As part of our commitment to empowering innovative Filipino entrepreneurs, We at MEC Networks Corporation serve as a supporting entity that will help the country invest in a better future with ICT.

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Ruckus: Embracing the New ICT Paradigms

MEC Networks Corporation — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 09:02:07 +0000

We’ve all observed it.

You stroll into a switch storage room and glance around. Residue lies thick upon antiquated switches—enough to diminish LED lights now and again. A crowd of residue rabbits has taken up home close to the fan vents. No one has seen the electrical plugs in years, covered under grime and webs.

The delicate murmur of hardware fills the air as the tech by your pillars. “It might be old, yet it works!”

What’s more, on the off chance that it doesn’t?

“At any rate, we know the majority of the bugs and have workarounds,” says our new IT companion.

Obviously, they do. In any case, imagine a scenario where they completely should overhaul. At that point what?

Any individual who has ever worked in IT knows the drill. You don’t overhaul firmware except if totally important. What’s more, you never under any circumstance reboot. Why?

“It probably won’t return,” murmurs the network engineer with a shudder. “No one can tell what will occur on the off chance that you reboot or overhaul hardware.”

It nearly seems like superstition, yet it’s plain handy sense and the reason such huge numbers of IT offices put off updates—equipment and programming—to the extent that this would be possible. The reason for IT is to convey network and registering administrations and anything that brings that down, or puts it in danger, is a Big Problem.

Nobody Wants Downtime

IT is tied in with expanding services and limiting the danger of downtime. Why take a risk with new and energizing bugs that will keep you late at the office or working through an all-encompassing support period throughout the end of the week?

This takes us back to those packs of residue rabbits wandering wild and free through switching storage rooms all over the place.

In the end, time runs out and you have to overhaul for another capacity required by the business. We get that and we comprehend you on the grounds that a considerable lot of us have lived in that world. That is the reason here at Ruckus we’ve invested so much energy building products that limit chance without sacrificing new capacities:

Advancements like grounds texture and RF innovations in access points intended to streamline network execution and increment dependability

Switches with a lot of POE budget for any application need

The most versatile network controller engineering which, in virtualized structure, SmartZone is practically boundless in its capacity to be updated without a tear and-supplant

In-service stack updates (ISSU) (ISSU) for switches or multi-picture AP organizations permit to set up redesigns without slowing down the network

Making 1Gbps Faster than 1Gbps

An age-old problem. You’ve got switches in the closets with 1Gbps uplinks, but you need something faster.

“Here we go,” sighs my IT tech guide. “I spent all this time building the network and now we’re going to change just for a little speed boost.”

What if you could make a 1 Gbps uplink port go faster? With the ICX 7150 switch Ruckus did just that. Buy it with 1 Gbps uplinks today and, when you’re ready, a simple command and license will upgrade to 10 Gbps uplinks. No new hardware.

My network engineer pauses to consider, eyes narrowed. “No hardware swap? What about a reboot? I bet there’s a reboot.”

Nope. No new hardware. No new software. No reboots.

This is why when we ask our customers what they like about their Ruckus network the answer is unanimous: “It just works.”

And we like that just fine. Check out the Ruckus Networks Switching and Routing Products and MEC Solutions now and learn how you can start embracing the new ICT Paradigms for your Digital Transformation in the 4th Industrial Revolution!

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