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NIL awarded for excellence of operations in the public sector

October 21st, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


Cisco Systems, the world's leading manufacturer of communications equipment, selected NIL as its Partner of the Year for 2007 for operations in the public sector. At its VIP partner summit, the American corporation Cisco Systems selected NIL, a leading communications technology company in Slovenia, as its Partner of the Year for ...

NIL has been re-certified as a Cisco Gold Certified Partner

October 13th, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


NIL announced it has achieved Gold re-certification from Cisco Systems. Cisco Gold Certified Partner is the highest title Cisco awards its partners for the level of expertise and services they have achieved. The Gold Certified Partner designation offers the highest level of credibility in the marketplace. Gold Certified Partners are recognized ...

Secure Time Management

September 1st, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


The April IP Corner article It’s good to be on time describes how you can use Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize the real-time clock of your network devices with external time references. As soon as you start relying on your routers having pretty exact time, NTP becomes part of ...

Designing Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs

August 1st, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


When designing a network solution, we often are faced with a myriad of parameters that influence the design process and the selection of the final solution. A network designer ideally would want to control as many parameters as possible apart from the business requirements, which is the basic set of ...

Prevent problems before they appear

July 14th, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


Contemporary business processes demand uninterrupted functioning of IT infrastructure, with real-time responsiveness. Permanent availability of communications and information services is key to successful business operations, representing significant savings of time and money. Each deviation from the planned parameters adversely affects business operations, and consequently productivity, income and satisfaction of customers ...

The OSPF Default Mysteries

July 1st, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


Default routing should be a simple concept, but becomes surprisingly complex in routing protocols that have multiple layers of default routes. In this IP Corner article, Ivan Pepelnjak, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at NIL Data Communications, describes how the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol uses default routes and ...

NIL renewed as a Cisco ATP – Outdoor Wireless Mesh partner

June 20th, 2008 by Mojca Parkelj


NIL, one of the global leaders in networking solutions, renewed the Outdoor Wireless Mesh Advanced Technology Provider (ATP) status from Cisco Systems. NIL has again met the resource requirements for the ATP - Outdoor Wireless Mesh program and has continued to demonstrate its qualifications to sell, install and support customers with ...