As you may have heard, this week, Cisco announced their new Next Level IT certifications during the Cisco Live event. In this blog, resident Cisco and networking edutainer Ronnie Wong walks you through what’s new, what to study now, and what the announcement means to you.
Anyone who spent late nights playing video games in their friend’s dorm remembers the joys of setting up a local-area network (LAN) in the days before Wi-Fi. While setting up multiple LANs made for a fun night of gaming with friends, setting up multiple networks on a single router offers a number of vital benefits to today’s businesses and IT professionals.
But given the headaches of deploying and maintaining just a single network on a router, many network admins – or just those managing networks at home – tend to shy away from configuring multiple LANs on a single router.
As an entrepreneur or business leader, you have plenty of responsibilities already: You must juggle budgeting, managing, and planning for growth. When your business is small and just starting up, that last task is even more important ― especially considering that you have fewer employees to help guide your decisions. You may need to pick up some of the technical work to help when you don’t have the personnel. This means you should strive to have a better knowledge of the tech used in your network.