Archive for the ‘IP Corner Technical Articles’ Category

First-Mile Wireless: Which (G)eneration?

January 8th, 2010 by Robert Lesar


The jungle of acronyms – from 2G (GSM, GPRS, EDGE) through 3G (UMTS) toward 4G (LTE), interleaved with Wi-Fi, WiMAX and similar terms – makes both potential users and specifically service providers offering first-mile wireless service rather uncomfortable. The January IP Corner article provides an overview of first-mile wireless technologies, ...

IPcorner technical articles

December 4th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


For those who don't follow NIL's monthly published technical articles, just a short reminder. Tilen Mlakar in november article focuses on security measures of the unified communications traffic, network components and end points where the applications or their parts reside. For all data center engineers, Jaroslav Rajic in december article ...

Cisco Telepresence – A Practical Deployment Guide

August 19th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


For quite some time, NIL is one of Cisco partners who successfully set up a few Cisco TelePresence systems. From all the experience, one of our engineers tried to gather the crucial points of setting up systems on the high video level from the practical perspective. Read the newest article ...

Data Center Interconnect

July 24th, 2009 by Bojana Stucin


Today’s data center is the home to essential computation, storage and applications that support your business. Because of their key importance to the business, data centers are designed to be robust, fast and highly reliable.

Evolving Toward the “Green” Data Center

June 5th, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


Decreasing the carbon footprint of the Data Center (DC) is the aim, and lowering the powering and cooling costs are the motivation for the measures to make your data center more energy efficient. From the equipment perspective, designing a DC network for virtualization helps to increase the overall utilization of ...

Designing Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs – Part 5

April 1st, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


Do you need an on-demand fully-meshed (any-to-any) topology using IPsec in your network? And you want simplicity in configuration? Among various implementations of the IPsec the Cisco`s Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN) is the solution in this case. Boštjan Šuštar, an internetworking expert at NIL Data Communications, in his ...

Add a VPN to an Enterprise Network with Multi-VRF Functionality

March 2nd, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


Are you in charge of connectivity for numerous small sites spread throughout a geographic area? And you need to provide a transport for the traffic generated by the video surveillance on the remote sites? The security policy dictates that IP traffic from the video cameras is separated from the other ...

Designing Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs – Part 4

February 5th, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


The legacy technologies such as leased lines or switched networks (Frame relay, ATM) have long been replaced by public Internet or MPLS. To secure the traffic between the Local Area Networks at remote sites an IPsec is an integral part of today`s solutions. Boštjan Šuštar, the Internetworking Expert at NIL Data ...

Flexible Extranet Implementation

January 5th, 2009 by Marjan Bradesko


Do you need to deploy an extranet? In a simple yet flexible enough way? Getting rid of limitations brought by fixed addressing? MPLS VPN implementation of an extranet brings the flexibility that will make even complex extranets deployment easier. In this IP Corner article, Ivan Pepelnjak, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ...

Designing Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs – Part 3

December 1st, 2008 by Marjan Bradesko


Site-to-site VPNs using IPsec can be implemented with the crypto maps or, when routed interface is needed, by GRE-tunnels. Virtual Tunnel Interfaces (VTIs) are a relatively late addition to Cisco IOS and eliminates the need for additional GRE overhead, while still providing the logical interface. Boštjan Šuštar, the Internetworking Expert at ...