Preparing a network is no easy task, which is why it makes perfect sense for network designers to use tools to get started. Creating a diagram makes it easier to get a fully functional network off of ...

Keeping documentation is a great way to ease your future hardware refresh and have what you need for insurance purposes. I recently completed a massive hardware refresh in which I updated nearly all ...

Step-by-step instructions to walk you through network-administration projects that can hone skills in IP addressing, Wi-Fi monitoring, documenting asset configuration, setting up DNS, and more. A ...

Verifying the design of network components is quite different from testing the networks themselves. Network engineers test from the top down. If they encounter a problem, they look only as far down ...

In the previous article, I explained that if you want to build a detailed network diagram using Microsoft Visio, then one of the first things that you should do is to create an Excel spreadsheet ...