Month: September 2013
Cisco WLC Single SSID with Two VLANs
There are many reasons to want only a single SSID available in your wireless air space. There is less overhead traffic and frequency overhead and users have a simpler experience to name two pros. One downfall, however, is that every device gets dropped into the same VLAN with the same security settings. Fortunately, this issue is addressed fairly easily with some additional configuration of your Cisco Wireless LAN Controller and a RADIUS server
Extend Your LAN Without Fiber
In this day and age nearly any Local Area Network is run over twisted pair Ethernet cabling or over fiber. Fiber is used for the backbone and the longer distances while Cat 5e or Cat 6 cabling runs to the end users desks as distances of 300 feet or less.