Routing & Switching
Designing an AI-Ready Campus Network After Cisco Live 2026
An AI-ready campus network needs segmentation, telemetry, resilient wired and wireless design, cloud access, identity integration, and a change workflow that can support agentic operations.
Cisco C9550 Smart Switches and the AI-Ready Campus Core
Evaluate the Cisco C9550 against port, scale, redundancy, optics, power, and software requirements; distinguish advertised hardware capability from features supported in the intended deployment.
Homelab VLAN Design: Simple Network Segmentation That Works
A practical VLAN design guide for homelabs, covering trust zones, VLAN IDs, trunks, access ports, firewall rules, mDNS, and rollback planning.
Designing Networks With DoD IL5 in Mind: Campus, Data Center, IT, and OT Security
How to design campus, data-center, IT, and OT networks that can support DoD IL5 mission systems without pretending a network alone is compliant.
UniFi Site Magic SD-WAN: Setup, Routing, Security, and Operational Limits
Choose a UniFi Site Magic topology with clear routing, NAT, isolation, ownership, capacity, validation, and failure boundaries before connecting production networks.
Catalyst Campus Fabric: eBGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and the Path to Macro and Microsegmentation
Distinguish BGP EVPN campus fabrics from SD-Access, then assess VRF routing separation, supported TrustSec policy, shared failure domains, and validation requirements for a bounded pilot.
My Ubiquiti UniFi Home Network: Business-Grade Networking at Home
Explore a UniFi home topology with separate gateway, controller, switches, and wired access points, plus VLAN policy, dual WAN, configuration backups, and staged updates.
Cisco Live 2026: Network Announcements That Matter
Cisco Live US 2026 in Las Vegas centered on Cisco Cloud Control, AgenticOps, Multicloud Fabric, secure campus and branch networking, Live Protect, Cisco IQ, quantum readiness, and new learning paths for network teams.