network segmentation
How Smart Blinds Connect to Your Network: Protocols and Topologies
A network engineer's guide to deploying smart Windows Blinds: VLAN isolation, QoS policies, and security considerations.
5 Reasons Why Windows Blinds Are Better Than Curtains or Drapes
When a senior network engineer at a Fortune 500 company was called to a conference room to fix a motorized blind that would not close on command, the initial assumption was a faulty motor or a dead battery. After two hours of swapping hubs and re-pairing remotes, the root cause turned out to be a...
Introduction to Subnetting: How and Why to Divide a Network
Subnetting lets a network administrator divide a large network into smaller, more manageable sub-networks by borrowing bits from the host portion of an IP address. Rather than running one enormous flat network, subnetting adds a third level to the addressing hierarchy, network, subnetwork, and host, giving administrators far more control over how a network actually...